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核心畫面

You can picture difference as the gap you notice when you hold two things side by side and they don't match — this one is red, that one is blue; this one is tall, that one is short. Everything else is that same gap seen in different settings: a gap in numbers, a gap that changes an outcome, a gap between people who disagree.

可以把 difference 想成：你把兩樣東西並在一起，發現它們對不上的那道「落差」——這個紅、那個藍；這個高、那…更多收起可以把 difference 想成：你把兩樣東西並在一起，發現它們對不上的那道「落差」——這個紅、那個藍；這個高、那個矮。後面的每一種用法，其實都是同一道落差換個場景：數字上的落差、會左右結果的落差、人和人意見對不上的落差。抓住「兩者對不上的那個縫」這個畫面，整個字就串起來了。

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量上的落差

把那道「對不上」收窄到數字上：兩個量相減剩下的那一截，就是量化版的差別。

the gap between two amounts · noun · A2

How much bigger or smaller one number or amount is than another.

差額 / 差距

造成的影響

把焦點從「兩者不一樣」移到「這個不一樣帶來的後果」：有它和沒它，結果就差一截，所以變成在講「作用、影響」。

make a difference · noun · A2

An important effect on something — used in 'make a difference'.

影響 / 作用

人之間的不合

把落差放到人和人之間：兩邊看法對不上，就成了「分歧、不合」。同一道縫，只是這次橫在兩個人的立場之間。

disagreements between people · noun · A2

Disagreements between people — usually used in the plural.

分歧 / 不合

Also in this word

a way two things are not the same · noun · A2

A way in which two or more things or people are not the same.

不同 / 差別

原始詞典資料12 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。

differencenoun/ˈdɪf.(ə.)ɹəns/

  • 1

    The quality of being different.

    • You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
  • 2

    A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

    • There are three differences between these two pictures.
    • But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
  • 3

    A disagreement or argument.

    • We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
    • What was the difference? It was a contention in public.
  • 4

    Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

    • It just won't make much difference to me.
    • It just won't make much of a difference to anyone.
  • 5

    The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

    • The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • 6

    obsoleteChoice; preference.

    • That now be chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lack intelligence.
  • 7

    governmentheraldryhobbiesAn addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

  • 8

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).

  • 10

    algebramathematicssciencesThe set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).

differenceverb/ˈdɪf.(ə.)ɹəns/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo distinguish or differentiate.

    • This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.
    • […] and souls, like in the mass, but differenced in themselves, with special gifts, duties and joys […]
  • 2

    governmentheraldryhobbiesto modify a heraldic emblem so as to distinguish one branch of a house from another

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。