【different音标】 英[ˈdɪfrənt] 美[ˈdɪfrənt]
【单词释义】 different是什么意思：
adj.不同的；有差异的；有区别的；各式各样的；个别的；不平常
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【关联词/派生词】
differ vi.不同于，相异于
difference n.差别，差异
differentiate v.区分，区别，辨别；区别对待
differentiation n. 分化；区别；差异化
differential adj.差别的；有区别的；[数]微分的 n. 差别；[数]微分；差动齿轮，分速器
differently adv. 不同地；相异地
【different形近词/近似词】
coherent adj.一致的；连贯的；条理分明的；清楚明白的
inherent adj.固有的，内在的；天生的
adherent n.支持者，拥护者 adj.粘着的；依附的；（植物）联生的
reverent adj.虔诚的；恭敬的；尊敬的
indifferent adj.漠不关心的；冷淡的
【常用短语】
different from 与…不同
【近义词解析】
◇ 不同的
different (adj. 不同的，不一样的)：强调事物之间的区别，侧重对比，常与介词 from 连用；英国英语口语中也常用 different to, 而美国英语中则用 different than。
diverse (adj. 各种各样的，不同的)：语气较强，强调性质或种类不同，侧重表示区别显著。
various (adj. 各种各样的，各种不同的)：强调种类不同，通常作定语。
【单词例句】
◇ The devil came again and placed a different letter in his bag. This letter said that they should kill the queen with her child.
恶魔又把另一封信装进信使的口袋，上面要他们将王后和她生的孩子处死。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ There are currently three major television broadcast standards,and they are all incompatible with each other.But this is nothing compared to the many technologies supporting the Internet,each with a different bandwidth and physical media.
当前有三大主要电视广播标准是互不相容的。他们都无法跟许多支持网络的技术相比，他们各自有不同的宽带和物理介质。
◇ "There are a few different things going on here," Dr. Angela Catic, a geriatrician and associate professor in the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine, tells Yahoo Life. One, she says, is that the discs between the vertebrae in your spine lose fluid as you get older. "They become dehydrated and, with that, they lose height — and you lose a bit of height," she says.
美国贝勒医学院赫芬顿衰老研究中心的老年病学专家、副教授安吉拉·卡蒂克博士告诉雅虎生活频道：“有几种不同情况。”一种情况是，年纪大了以后，脊柱椎间盘所含的液体会减少。她指出：“脊柱椎间盘脱水后会变短，从而让你变矮。”
---- Why do you shrink when you get older
◇ In a recent study that assessed the level of fungal contamination in bedding, researchers found that feather and synthetic pillows between 1.5 and 20 years old can contain between four and 17 different species of fungus.
最近的一项研究评估了床上用品的真菌污染水平，研究人员发现，使用年限在1.5年和20年之间的羽绒和化纤枕头含有4到17种不同的真菌。
---- How often you should wash your bed sheets?
◇ Made from fossil fuels, they are almost never recycled because they're too small and could be made from several different types of plastic.
用化石燃料制成的塑料吸管几乎从来不会被回收利用，因为它们体积太小，而且可能是由好几种不同类型的塑料制成的。
---- Is time up for this plastic relic
◇ And for dresses, the most important thing to check is that the hanger isn’t distorting the shape of the dress as those clothing items are more difficult to hang because there are so many different cuts, shapes, styles and fabrics.
存放裙装时，最重要的是看看衣架会不会使裙子变形。裙装有各种不同的裁剪、衣形、款式和面料，因此最难悬挂。
---- How to hang, wash, and care for clothes
◇ Raisins, currants and sultanas affect different dogs in different ways and scientists can’t work out why.
葡萄干、醋栗和无核小葡萄干对不同狗狗的影响不同，科学家无法弄清其中原因。
---- Food that dogs cannot eat
◇ Being fit earlier in life is associated with a reduced risk, in some cases of up to 42%, of developing nine different types of cancer in later life, according to a large long-term study.
一项大型长期研究显示，年轻时身强体健可以降低年老时患上9种不同癌症的风险，某些情况下甚至能将风险降低42%之多。
---- Fitness earlier in life reduces cancer risk when older
◇ Over three months, half were asked to watch two different hour-long comedy programmes each week, including popular sitcoms. The other half watched two different serious documentaries, about topics such as politics or the Amazon rainforest.
在三个月的时间内，有一半的患者被要求每周观看两个不同的长达一小时的喜剧节目，包括受欢迎的情景喜剧。另外一半患者每周观看两部不同的严肃纪录片，涉及政治或亚马逊雨林这类题材。
---- Study finds laughter is good for heart health
◇ Since then scientists have come to learn that snowflakes can only form into 35 different shapes. Although scientists are also unsure why exactly the various shapes of snowflake form, they have identified eight predominant shapes, with each of these eight shapes having several different variations.
之后，科学家了解到雪花只会有35种不同形状的造型。虽然科学家也不清楚雪花会形成各种各样形状的准确原因，但是他们已经确定出了雪花的8种主要形状，这8种形状中的每一种又有几种不同的变化。