- 1反過來說；相反地
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. Warm air rises; conversely, cool air sinks. 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 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.
From the word’s history
From converse + -ly.
由 converse「相反的」加 -ly 組成。
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
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