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单词 disjuncture
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Definition of disjuncture in English:

disjuncture

noundɪsˈdʒʌŋ(k)tʃəˌdisˈjəNG(k)CHər
  • A separation or disconnection.

    the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The disjuncture between the lived reality and the represented reality is also a function of the way the medium works, its rules of the game and the peculiar way in which peer and market pressures operate on it.
    • The disjuncture between the ‘real’ world of economic drivers, and the froth of ideology and ‘politics’, continues.
    • This disjuncture between the process of ‘impersonal research’ and the ‘sudden intrusion’ of the historian's personality during writing is unrealistic.
    • But there is an awkward disjuncture between these authors' description of the changing situation, and the bleak and brooding conclusions drawn along the way.
    • The best angle for Democrats would be to pry at the disjuncture between those two numbers rather than to hit the president head-on.
    • What we quickly see is a disjuncture between the pattern, the model, the equation, the algorithm, etc. and people's actual lived experience.
    • Electricity markets bring a disjuncture between price and the cost of production.
    • This apparatus functions as an aural disjuncture of space where the audience ‘wears’ the clothes and the sounds of another reality while negotiating the visual space of the gallery.
    • Unemployment following graduation is high for these students, reflecting a disjuncture between market needs and university education.
    • It would seem that there is a disjuncture between the low interest in politics and public life in general, and the high level of emotional engagement in the election debate.
    • The disjuncture between our public face and our private face arises from a failure of presentation, not of a failure of substance.
    • With most politicians in these sorts of settings I watch and see the disjuncture between what they are doing and what they should be doing, what they're supposed to be doing.
    • It may also be the case that there is a disjuncture between law and justice.
    • The disjuncture between a flat but durable real economy and the spate of corporate scandals distressing a weak stockmarket gives a clue to what is really going on in US capitalism.
    • So what we have is a disjuncture between American immigration policy as it exists today and the simple realities of how our economy works.
    • ‘Wright's work with its uneasy disjuncture between form and content, produces the visceral sense of that sad knowledge’.
    • Even these conflicts and disjunctures are brought into the structure of beer drinking, where they are, at least temporarily, resolved alongside the norm of interdependence and cooperation.
    • There is an increasing disjuncture between conservative myth and cultural reality.
    • His film makes good use of the cultural disjunctures that are commonplace now in an urban setting (in this case Shanghai), like the rank pollution of the otherwise picturesque Suzhou River itself.
    • What is important is to embody, live, and work with these disjunctures and ambivalences.
    Synonyms
    splitting, parting, division, dividing, cleaving, rupture, breaking, severance, separation

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin disjunctura, from Latin disjunct- 'disjoined' (see disjunct).

 
 

Definition of disjuncture in US English:

disjuncture

nounˌdisˈjəNG(k)CHər
  • A separation or disconnection.

    the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The disjuncture between the ‘real’ world of economic drivers, and the froth of ideology and ‘politics’, continues.
    • With most politicians in these sorts of settings I watch and see the disjuncture between what they are doing and what they should be doing, what they're supposed to be doing.
    • This apparatus functions as an aural disjuncture of space where the audience ‘wears’ the clothes and the sounds of another reality while negotiating the visual space of the gallery.
    • Electricity markets bring a disjuncture between price and the cost of production.
    • What we quickly see is a disjuncture between the pattern, the model, the equation, the algorithm, etc. and people's actual lived experience.
    • The best angle for Democrats would be to pry at the disjuncture between those two numbers rather than to hit the president head-on.
    • But there is an awkward disjuncture between these authors' description of the changing situation, and the bleak and brooding conclusions drawn along the way.
    • There is an increasing disjuncture between conservative myth and cultural reality.
    • The disjuncture between our public face and our private face arises from a failure of presentation, not of a failure of substance.
    • ‘Wright's work with its uneasy disjuncture between form and content, produces the visceral sense of that sad knowledge’.
    • Unemployment following graduation is high for these students, reflecting a disjuncture between market needs and university education.
    • The disjuncture between a flat but durable real economy and the spate of corporate scandals distressing a weak stockmarket gives a clue to what is really going on in US capitalism.
    • His film makes good use of the cultural disjunctures that are commonplace now in an urban setting (in this case Shanghai), like the rank pollution of the otherwise picturesque Suzhou River itself.
    • What is important is to embody, live, and work with these disjunctures and ambivalences.
    • Even these conflicts and disjunctures are brought into the structure of beer drinking, where they are, at least temporarily, resolved alongside the norm of interdependence and cooperation.
    • So what we have is a disjuncture between American immigration policy as it exists today and the simple realities of how our economy works.
    • The disjuncture between the lived reality and the represented reality is also a function of the way the medium works, its rules of the game and the peculiar way in which peer and market pressures operate on it.
    • It may also be the case that there is a disjuncture between law and justice.
    • It would seem that there is a disjuncture between the low interest in politics and public life in general, and the high level of emotional engagement in the election debate.
    • This disjuncture between the process of ‘impersonal research’ and the ‘sudden intrusion’ of the historian's personality during writing is unrealistic.
    Synonyms
    splitting, parting, division, dividing, cleaving, rupture, breaking, severance, separation

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin disjunctura, from Latin disjunct- ‘disjoined’ (see disjunct).

 
 
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