different: [14] English acquired different via Old French different from different-, the present participial stem of Latin differre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and ferre ‘carry’ (related to English bear). Latin differre had two distinct strands of meaning that sprang from the original literal ‘carry apart, scatter, disperse, separate’: one was ‘put off, delay’, from which English gets defer; the other ‘become or be unlike’, whence English differ [14] and different. The derived indifferent [14] originally meant ‘not differentiating or discriminating’. => bear, dilatory
late 14c., from Old French different (14c.), from Latin differentem (nominative differens) "differing, different," present participle of differre "to set apart" (see differ). Colloquial sense of "special" attested by 1912. Related: Differently.
双语例句
1. Things might have been different if I'd talked a bit more.
如果当时我再多说一点的话，结果或许会不一样。
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2. Since the birds interbreed they cannot be classed as different species.
由于这些鸟进行杂交繁殖，不能把它们归为不同的物种。
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3. These expressions are often used interchangeably, but they do have different meanings.
这些表达方式经常相互替代使用，但它们的含义却有所不同。
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4. They found their computers producing different results from exactly the same calculation.
他们发现他们的计算机进行完全相同的计算会得出不同的结果。
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5. We felt we were living life on several different planes.
