early 15c., "disagreement," from Middle French dissonance and directly from Late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonantem (see dissonant). Figurative use dates from 1875.
双语例句
1. Dissonance among the three partners doomed the project.
三个股东间的不调和注定了那计划的失败.
来自辞典例句
2. Cognitive dissonance is also applied to a perceived incongruity between a person's attitudes and his behaviour.
认识分歧也用于指一个人的态度和他的行为之间可以看得出来的不一致.
来自辞典例句
3. The concerts were more enjoyable without all the horrid modern dissonance which nobody really understood.
音乐会里已经没有那些叫人头痛谁都听不懂的现代派不谐和音,所以更好听了.
来自辞典例句
4. In acoustics he studied the propagation of sound and musical consonance and dissonance.
在声学中,他研究了声的传播和音乐的和谐与不和谐.
来自辞典例句
5. The resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance.
