apples and oranges 的定义
- Unlike objects or persons, as in Assessing the problems of the neighborhood grocery by examining a giant supermarket is comparing apples and oranges. This metaphor for dissimilarity began as apples and oysters, which appeared in John Ray's proverb collection of 1670. It is nearly always accompanied by a warning that one cannot compare such different categories.
apples and oranges 近义词
等同于 unlike
apples and oranges 的近义词 33 个
- dissimilar
- clashing
- conflicting
- contradictory
- contrary
- contrasted
- discordant
- disharmonious
- disparate
- dissonant
- distant
- distinct
- divergent
- diverse
- far cry from
- heterogeneous
- hostile
- incompatible
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- mismatched
- not alike
- offbeat
- opposed
- opposite
- poles apart
- separate
- unalike
- unequal
- unrelated
- variant
- various
- weird
apples and oranges 的反义词 5 个
更多apples and oranges例句
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- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- We are a nation in which a few rotten apples are spoiling different barrels.
- Once hot, add the shallots, apples, cranberries, and remaining cranberry juice to the pan.
- She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
- No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
- They would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.
- Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
- They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.