| 释义 |
▪ I. misˈmatch, n.
[mis-1 4.]
A bad match; a discrepancy; lack of correspondence; also, an unequal or unfair sporting contest.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Argt. 6 Mis-Matches taxt. 1748Richardson Clarissa IV. 65 See you not..the mismatch that there is in our minds? 1881A. R. Ellis Sylvestra II. 168 That mismatch began the mending of Philip. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 538/1 The saucer a mismatch. 1954F. C. Avis Boxing Reference Dict. 71 Mismatch, a contest between two boxers of very different standards of ability. 1958Optima Mar. 40/2 The mismatch between arisings and normal disposal methods. 1959New Scientist 9 Apr. 802/3 There is a bad mismatch which will run right through the crystal. 1961Times 21 Nov. 3/3 There had been suggestions that this [sc. a boxing match] had been a mismatch. 1971Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 5/3 There is a definite mis-match between what universities are producing and what industry is wanting. 1973Computers & Humanities VII. 139 The computer..compares the corresponding words..until a mismatch occurs.
▪ II. miˈsmatch, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To match ill, badly, or unsuitably, esp. in marriage; pass. to be ill-matched or ill-mated. Also miˈsmatched ppl. a., miˈsmatching vbl. n.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. x, Cup. I am studying how to match them. Mer. How to mis-match them were harder. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 4 (1865) 288 How preposterous and mismatched is an erected countenance and a grovelling spirit! 1638in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 282 Here and there a mismatched suit, but none complete. 1643Milton Divorce 18 One example of mis-matching with an Infidell. 1678Dryden All for Love iv, Sure that Face Was meant for Honesty, but Heav'n mis-match'd it. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 8/1 If the Members be..not mismatcht nor unsightly. 1848J. H. Newman Loss & Gain 73, I have heard persons mentioned, but, if I tried, I think I should, in some cases mismatch names and opinions. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. xliii. (1865) 317 A mismatched pair of Eleusinian steeds. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1426 The belts are of different lengths, so as to mismatch the sections as they are revolved. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXV. 188 The interference occurs when the pictorial and linguistic symbolic representations of the color concepts are combined together with mismatching. 1974Nature 7 June 566/2 This difference in thermal stability would indicate about 5% mismatching between the Mu MTV DNA and the tumour RNA.
Hence misˈmatchment = mismatch n.
1858Mrs. Gore Heckington III. xiii. 283 The mismatchments created by those hypocrisies of modern life which [etc.]. |