| 单词 | worlds apart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworlds apart c. worlds apart: vastly different or distant; quite incompatible. Similarly worlds away (from). ΚΠ 1800 C. Hutton Diary Compan. 4 How did we revel in our distant bow'rs, In fancied interviews, whole worlds apart!] 1891 Glasgow Herald 19 Sept. 7/2 It is always the case, in every game where skill can be employed, that the most skilful make their mark, and are worlds apart from the comparatively unskilful. 1900 H. S. Holland Old & New 33 They look to you worlds apart. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 61 It is worlds away from the ‘fellowship in service’ of some of the socially purposive movements. 1970 W. Stracke in S. Terkel Hard Times (2000) 166 In 1940, I was fired by the Fourth Presbyterian Church. I had become active, singing for various causes. I hadn't gotten too much static from this because they were worlds apart. 2002 B. Risebero Story Western Archit. (ed. 3) 281 These middle-class kids, trying to form a commune, were worlds apart from the building-workers in the French bidonvilles or the thousands of homeless in the barriadas of Peru. < as lemmas |
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