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Conversely is a linking word. You use it when the next thing you say is the other way round from what you just said. If one picture is true, you now show the reverse picture.
Conversely is a linking word.Conversely是個連接詞。You use it when the next thing you say is the other way round from what you just said.當你接下來要講的事情,跟你剛剛講的完全相反時,就用這個字。If one picture is true,如果一個畫面是真的,you now show the reverse picture.你現在要呈現的是相反的畫面。
Warm air rises; conversely, cool air sinks.
Warm air rises;熱空氣會上升;conversely, cool air sinks.conversely相反地,冷空氣會下沉。
It is a school-and-essay word, common in textbooks and careful writing. In speech people more often say on the other hand, the other way around, or but.
It is a school-and-essay word,這是個學校作文常用的字,common in textbooks and careful writing.教科書和講究的寫作裡很常見。In speech people more often say on the other hand, the other way around, or but.口語裡大家比較常說on the other hand另一方面、the other way around反過來,或就直接說but但是。
It does not mean you are arguing “you are wrong.” It means: look at the opposite case. Though actually, it looks as if it belongs with conversation, and students often think it does — but this converse is the turned-around side of a fact, not talk.
It does not mean you are arguing "you are wrong."它不代表你在說「你錯了」。It means: look at the opposite case.它的意思是:看看相反的那個情況。Though actually, it looks as if it belongs with conversation,不過其實,它看起來好像跟conversation對話有關,and students often think it does學生也常常這樣以為——— but this converse is the turned-around side of a fact, not talk.但這個converse指的是一件事翻過來的另一面,不是講話。
組成converse (the turned-around or opposite case) + -ly (makes an adverb). This converse is from Latin conversus, “turned around,” the same turn-root as convert — not the talking word conversation.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
converselyadv/kənˈvɜːsli/
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With a reversed relationship.
- If two parallelograms, which have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other, be equal to one another, the sides about the equal angles are reciprocally proportional, and conversely.
- Proposition I. If four quantities are proportional, the product of the extremes is equal to the product of the means, and conversely.
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From another point of view; on the other hand.
- At 123 yards, Royal Troon's par-3 eighth in the shortest hole in the Open Championship rota. Known as the "Postage Stamp," the eighth's distance has produced plenty of aces – most recently, Ernie Els in 2004, but Gene Sarazen's hole-in-one remains the benchmark, as the Squire accomplished said feat at 71 years old. Conversely, the hole is not a walk in the park.
- So the issue of unification only comes up when the geometry can no longer be treated as a mere background, or conversely, when the classical theory is no longer accurate. But these circumstances exist (as far as we know) in only two places: the earliest moments of the Big Bang, and the immediate vicinity of singularities hidden behind black hole event horizons.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。