单词 | unequal |
释义 | un·equal I. 1. a. < cutting planks of unequal length > < unequal amounts of butter > < classes of unequal size > < unequal costs > b. < two machines operating at unequal speeds > < several pieces of unequal workmanship > < men of unequal capacity > < statistics … unequal in value — Geographical Journal > < poems … of widely unequal merit — College English > c. archaic 2. a. < unequal chances for success > b. < unequal pulsations > < unequal and different movements of the heavenly bodies — Benjamin Farrington > < a most unequal writer — Times Literary Supplement > c. < the tips of the unequal towers — Janet Flanner > d. < an unequal surface > 3. a. < unequal odds > < an unequal fight > < farmers were ready to abandon their unequal struggle with a stubborn soil — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > b. < unequal marriages > < unequal treaties > < an unequal match > c. archaic < her spirits … were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them — Jane Austen > 4. a. archaic < to punish me for what you made me do seems much unequal — Shakespeare > b. obsolete < an unequal parent — Matthew Prior > 5. < unequal to the pace > < a mere politician will prove unequal to the position > < timber unequal to the strain > < felt unequal to the coming interview > < they were unequal to the wild country — Emil Lengyel > II. 1. < a comparison of unequals > < a society of unequals — Walter Moberly > 2. < if unequals are added to unequals in the same order, the sums are unequal in the same order > III. archaic < match'd — Shakespeare > |
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