| 单词 | diverge |
| 释义 | diverge (once / 996 pages) v When two roads diverge, they split and go in different directions. If your opinion diverges from mine, we do not agree. To diverge means to move apart or be separate. The poet, Robert Frost, wrote: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -/ I took the one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference." The word diverge in the poem carries both the meaning of separating and of being apart from the main. As a poet, it was Frost's job to use words properly. Here he does not diverge from this role. WORD FAMILYdiverge: diverged, divergency, divergent, diverges, diverging+/divergence: divergences/divergency: divergencies/divergent: divergence, divergently/diverging: divergingly USAGE EXAMPLESAnd third economic policy, Trump shows no signs of diverging from Reagan’s trickle-down legacy, despite his populist campaign bluster. Salon(Dec 26, 2016) Both said that while there’s nothing explicitly illegal about the charity fundraising, it diverges from the best practices of previous White House administrations. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) It’s called a diverging diamond because it shifts vehicles to the opposite side of the road, eliminating left turns in front of oncoming traffic. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) 1v move or draw apart The two paths diverge here Ant|Hypo|Hyper converge move or draw together at a certain location branch, fork, furcate, ramify, separate divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork arborise, arborizebranch out like trees twigbranch out in a twiglike manner bifurcatedivide into two branches trifurcatedivide into three move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 2v extend in a different direction The lines start to diverge here Their interests diverged Ant|Hypo converge, meet be adjacent or come together adjoin, contact, meet, touchbe in direct physical contact with; make contact divaricate branch off bifurcatesplit or divide into two 3v be at variance with; be out of line with Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper depart, deviate, vary conform be similar, be in line with aberrate diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration aberratediverge from the expected belie, contradict, negatebe in contradiction with differ be different 4v have no limits as a mathematical series Ant|Hyper converge, meet be adjacent or come together convergeapproach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit adjoin, contact, meet, touchbe in direct physical contact with; make contact be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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