dissonance

• n. 不一致；不調和；不和諧音

dis-, 不，非，使相反。-son,聲音，詞源同sound, consonance. 即不同的聲音，引申詞義不和。

dissonance (n.)

early 15c., "disagreement," from Middle French dissonance and directly from Late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonantem (see dissonant). Figurative use dates from 1875.

1. Dissonance among the three partners doomed the project.

三個股東間的不調和注定了那計劃的失敗.

來自辭典例句

2. Cognitive dissonance is also applied to a perceived incongruity between a person's attitudes and his behaviour.

認識分歧也用於指一個人的態度和他的行為之間可以看得出來的不一致.

來自辭典例句

3. The concerts were more enjoyable without all the horrid modern dissonance which nobody really understood.

音樂會裏已經沒有那些叫人頭痛誰都聽不懂的現代派不諧和音,所以更好聽了.

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4. In acoustics he studied the propagation of sound and musical consonance and dissonance.

在聲學中,他研究了聲的傳播和音樂的和諧與不和諧.

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5. The resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance.

一個不和諧音轉變為和諧音常常是為另一個不和諧音做鋪墊.

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