| 单词 | incommensurate |
| 例句 | “Optimism, pessimism; America the innocent, America the compromised: These incommensurate polarities have come to be part of the very structure of the left-versus-right order of battle in American political life.” ‘The Invisible Bridge,’ by Rick Perlstein 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Even among those in the novel who have not suffered strokes, language at times is incommensurate with the job it is expected to perform. Review | ‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Here, objects of incommensurate scale and importance are reduced to an artificial formal equality. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The number today is closer to one-third, and is distributed highly unevenly, sorting the nation into ever more homogeneous and incommensurate swaths. Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of Democracy? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z They sound like incommensurate traits — one is inventive and literary, the other is bland and technocratic. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z That didn’t translate into her work being kind — a word that’s almost comically incommensurate with her acerbic narrative voice, the performative “I” she would insert into her essays and profiles. Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Part of the problem with the production, as a whole, is that the comic depictions often seem incommensurate. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage Despite the complexity of these latter ideas, her use of diagrams and figures helps to reinforce their approachability—although in some cases their incommensurate simplicity feels unsatisfying. Today’s Deep-Sea Explorers Are Mineral Miners and Ultrawealthy Hobbyists 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z The Chinese government took one of three seats on the subsidiary’s board, wielding a level of influence incommensurate with its nominal stake. How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Hirers across industries describe a recurring scenario: A candidate in their 20s or early 30s applies for a position and requests compensation and benefits incommensurate with experience. Recruiters are burned out, and Gen Z job demands aren’t helping 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z As long ago as 2011, the WHO’s report on the H1N1 influenza pandemic concluded that the agency’s budget is “wholly incommensurate” with its global responsibilities. COVID Pushed Global Health Institutions to Their Limits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z “He sought unprecedented relief, and his team pressed the case in a slapdash manner incommensurate with the gravity of the subject matter.” Trump should pay legal fees for failed lawsuit, Wisconsin governor says 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z “The Troubles” seems incommensurate — euphemistic even — as a descriptor of the social fission that cleaved Northern Ireland in the late 20th century. The Troubles live on in Belfast Noir, a genre perfectly suited to its crimes 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z But look closer and you’ll see they are always hinting at whatever is incommensurate and unstable at the heart of identity. Perspective | After making this enigmatic masterpiece, Marisol disappeared from the New York art scene she had conquered But the system is cracking under the weight of surging demand, and an incommensurate supply of workers and groceries. Grocery delivery was supposed to be the ultimate pandemic lifeline. But it’s falling short. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z They contend that the incommensurate coverage of Trump, who got far more news than Clinton, was a key factor in his win. The "Bernie Blackout" appears to be over: How will the media cover the Sanders campaign now? 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z ByteDance had allowed content to appear that was “incommensurate with socialist core values, that did not properly implement public opinion guidance,” he said. How TikTok Holds Our Attention 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But projects like BA-39 were incommensurate with the scale of the problem: “We need to be bold.” Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “The Troubles” seems incommensurate — euphemistic even — as a descriptor of the social fission that cleaved apart Northern Ireland in the late 20th century. Review: ‘Say Nothing’ reexamines a mother’s murder in Northern Ireland’s most violent years 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Soldiers returning from the battlefields of the Great War, for example, were less likely than earlier combatants to speak of what they’d gone through, finding ordinary language incommensurate with the horrors of mechanical warfare. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Atkins didn't seek payment for her work, or recognition — and attention incommensurate with her achievements is what she got. Victorian photographer Anna Atkins' botanical prints merged science, technology and artistry - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s not just a corporation – it’s a cultural icon which elicits an extraordinary passion, entirely incommensurate with its unremarkable product. What happened to Tim Hortons? The downfall of Canada's brand 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z On “First Take,” as in barbershops across Harlem and bars all over Chicago, games elicit emotional responses incommensurate with their importance. Stephen A. Smith Won’t Stop Talking 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But she thinks the sanctions were too harsh and incommensurate with the degree of wrongdoing. Sacked Japanese biologist gets chance to retrain at Crick institute 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The app’s corporate boss issued an apology that the content “was incommensurate with socialist core values.” Opinion | Russia and China take Big Brother to absurd new levels 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Open the front door to chef-owner Genet Agonafer’s restaurant, a dining room that seems both a local fixture and oddly incommensurate with the neighborhood. Ethiopian chef Genet Agonafer may cook the best doro wot in town, but she hasn't eaten it in years 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z These doctrinaire economists had resolved a time-worn paradox of Western political philosophy, which was that the promise of democratic individualism was incommensurate with the need for a state-run army. 'Thank you for your service': what we really mean when we salute our troops 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The commitments made by governments on climate change will lead to dangerous levels of global warming because they are incommensurate with the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. World on track for 3C of warming under current global climate pledges, warns UN 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The modesty of the numerical goal is incommensurate with the weight of the challenge posed by some 5 million Syrian refugees, including roughly 1.1 million already in Europe. America has accepted 10,000 Syrian refugees. That’s still too few. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The report documents the fact that major news outlets covered Donald Trump at a level that was incommensurate with his experience, base of support, and initial polling. The press has not done its job: 3 ways the media has failed our democracy in covering the election 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The nomenklatura capitalists, whose Vuitton bags and Rolex watches were suspiciously incommensurate with their official salaries, began to patronize native-born designers. China’s Homegrown High-Fashion Designer 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Trump’s efforts to bully Fox into excluding a journalist he doesn’t like—or rather, appears to loathe with a venom that is glaringly incommensurate with anything that Kelly has said or done—is quite reprehensible. Donald Trump vs. Fox News: The Big Picture 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “He wants two things that are absolutely incommensurate and in failing to really decide for or against one of them a decision ends up being made for him,” she says. Anne Washburn: the playwright rebooting the ancients – and the Simpsons 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Even in England, where she has won prizes and critical acclaim, her reputation is incommensurate with her spectacular originality. Jenny Diski’s End Notes 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Fisher told Churchill his plan was doomed to failure and moreover fraught with possibilities of disaster utterly incommensurate with any advantage that could be obtained from the plan. Winston Churchill's Terrible Leadership Failure 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z However, "the budget and staffing are entirely incommensurate with its goals". African CDC needs more money and a strong leader 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z We are witnessing a conflict between what Isaiah Berlin might call incommensurate values – where both sides deeply believe they are right. Solving the Prisoner's Dilemma: The Death of Klinghoffer at the Met 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z The crime, ostensibly fueled by sexual aggression, at first appears to be incommensurate with the atrocities of America’s racial past. A Graphic Photo Spurs Reflection 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Recent x-ray scattering experiments in YBa2CuO6+x observe incommensurate charge-density wave fluctuations whose strength rises gradually over a wide temperature range above , but then decreases as the temperature is lowered below . [Report] Angular Fluctuations of a Multicomponent Order Describe the Pseudogap of YBa2Cu3O6+x 2014-03-20T18:26:13.291Z A fundamental problem is that the size of the field is incommensurate with the immense task at hand, and that is further complicated by intense competition for limited funds. Vital statistics 2013-02-20T18:20:00.907Z Instead of vacillating between mania and depression, they were irritable most of the time and often erupted in fits of rage and physical violence incommensurate to whatever supposed offense set them off. The Newest Edition of Psychiatry s Bible, the DSM-5, Is Complete 2013-01-28T12:15:00.200Z That he should often fall upon his knees was but the consequence of his daily discovery that his burdens and his strength were widely incommensurate. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z His sense of rhythm was incommensurate with hers. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z To her, my dark skin was incommensurate with me – a confident professional in a fancy salon. India Ink: Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin (Tone) 2011-09-24T06:30:56Z “The size of the field is incommensurate with the immense task at hand.” Vital statistics 2013-02-20T18:20:00.907Z But his mental condition underwent a change altogether incommensurate with his physical symptoms. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z It must be admitted, however, that the addition to our knowledge of the physics of the atmosphere afforded by the American stations has been slight and incommensurate with the expense incurred. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z In the investigation of past times, the incommensurate elements of well-being are so numerous that merely money estimates are frequently misleading. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z It is also about introducing technologies and political economies that are in many ways incommensurate with subsistence livelihoods. Leaving the Land of a Thousand Hills 2010-09-15T22:02:00Z Two memories, which are both specially retentive, may also be incommensurate. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The customary epithets applied to nautical fiction are quite incommensurate with the excellence of Mr. Clark Russell's narrative powers, and these are thoroughly at their best in "The Captain's Wife." The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire This obligation is incommensurate with the debt I owe for years of inspiration, tuition and criticism. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type These differ from other forms of force in being incommensurate with extension. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion And a few of them actually contrived to accomplish their purpose before they died, although the damage which they were able to do was quite incommensurate with the frightful sacrifice of life which it cost. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Our reasons are ludicrously incommensurate with the volume of our feeling, yet on the latter we unhesitatingly act. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy But at present the results that they have achieved, even upon their own showing and apart from all criticism of methods, seem quite incommensurate with the amount of trouble and pain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Krehbiel, and is worked up delightfully in the cantata, an incessant thudding of a drum in an incommensurate rhythm giving it a decidedly barbaric tone. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Macbeth murder!—not the injury so much as the man himself was incommensurate, was too slight by a thousand degrees for so appalling a catastrophe. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 But then some little episode would occur, some wholly undemonstrable trifle, which swept his cooler judgment to the winds, and gave him a quite incommensurate heartburn. The Nebuly Coat The ideas are really incommensurate, as is well pointed out in Schurman's monograph on the Kantian and the evolutionary ethics of Spencer. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles But Lady Grant could not but notice that the young lady from Devonshire seemed to exercise an authority incommensurate with the tone in which she had been described. Kept in the Dark To-morrow we discover without shame, after all our protestations and engagements, that their future seems incommensurate with our own. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 The prince's gratitude seemed to me incommensurate with so small a service, and so I told him. The Rose of Old St. Louis Yet the explanations above given seem to me quite incommensurate with the phenomena admitted. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 How often magnified by little causes into an importance wholly incommensurate with the object desired! The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 It is only in their underlying network of causes that they are dissimilar and incommensurate. A Book of Prefaces Again, a human act is evil through lacking conformity with its due measure: and conformity of measure in a thing depends on a rule, from which if that thing depart, it is incommensurate. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition I shall dispense with all "surds" and similar absurdities, notwithstanding the fact that the sides of our triangle are clearly incommensurate, since we cannot exactly extract the square roots of the three square areas. Amusements in Mathematics We do not find fault with men for being born in positions that confer powers upon them incommensurate with their rights. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 She possesseth an active and gadding mind, totally incommensurate with her person. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 They show, in his opinion, that Germany has no wish for world dominion or for any predominance in Europe incommensurate with the rights of the 122,000,000 Germans and Austrians. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Their shyness and politeness, when the occasion was quite simple, were absurdly incommensurate even with modesty. London River Now, although the sides of our triangular estate are incommensurate, we have in this diagram all the exact figures that we need to discover the area with precision. Amusements in Mathematics Ambitious beyond all bounds, but with a capacity singularly incommensurate with his ambition, he believed that money could accomplish everything. Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 Poor soul, here for so little, cast among so many hardships, filled with desires so incommensurate and so inconsistent; savagely surrounded, savagely descended, irremediably condemned to prey upon his fellow-lives. A Daughter of the Snows But the inward joy which inundated my soul was far more infinite, radiant, and incommensurate, than the atmosphere with which I seemed to mingle. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty It is probable that his acquaintance with literature was incommensurate with his reputation or apparent scope as a writer. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Tamely to wish a man a safe issue seemed to be a common compliment incommensurate with the occasion; and a bathos. The Castle Inn Her knowledge was pitifully incommensurate to his whys. The Visioning The whole question seems to be incommensurate to our faculties. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author The effort was so incommensurate with the result. Of Human Bondage But it proved to be a small affair, Ducrot's force being altogether incommensurate with the effort required of it. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Masculine qualities and feminine qualities are fundamentally and eternally distinct and incommensurate. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene In this side of his nature he is forever incommensurate with and unintelligible to woman, be she even teacher, sister, or mother. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Behind the imposing façade of their physical aspect we detect an uneasy, hurried, shrewdly contriving little creature, quite incommensurate with the material bodily structure built up for his concealment and protection. The Subterranean Brotherhood Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Raise x to any power you will, and however vast may be the disparity between it and the lower powers of x, both are equally incommensurate with xn. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science That he should waste his forces on objects so incommensurate with their extent proves how little he was qualified to wield them. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) To the Northern mind the cause is entirely incommensurate with the anger displayed. Bricks Without Straw I read what I took in hand, and said what I believed to be true,—always giving to the matter time altogether incommensurate with the pecuniary result to myself. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope But it cannot be denied, considering the vigor with which he began his literary career, and the length of time which has since elapsed, that a dozen small volumes must appear incommensurate. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life But finding the returns incommensurate with the labor, he soon gave it up and sought more congenial occupations, mainly in the towns of the valleys and the seacoast. Tennessee's Partner At the time he regarded these seven years spent in Sind as simply seven years wasted, and certainly his rewards were incommensurate with his exertions. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Yet to supply this conception various historians take forces of different kinds, all of which are incommensurate with the movement observed. War and Peace The work showed an infinite and almost pathetic patience in detail, yet strangely incommensurate with the result, admirable as it was. Stories in Light and Shadow |
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