- 1不平等（社會上的貧富、機會、權力差距；數學課裡的「不等式」是另一義）
Inequality is an unfair situation in which some groups have more money, chances, power, or safety than others. People talk about income inequality, gender inequality, racial inequality: not one unlucky person, but a pattern in a society. It is the ordinary word in news, school, and ; you do not need a special voice to use it. Though actually, the same spelling also names a maths idea — a sentence like x > 3, an inequality — so in a maths class the word is cooler and has nothing to do with fairness. In social talk, inequality is about the gap, not about one rude act. A single unfair decision may be ; inequality is the bigger, lasting unevenness.
From the word’s history
From Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequālitās, from Latin inaequālis 'unequal', in- 'not' + aequālis 'equal'.
源自拉丁文 inaequālis，in-「不」加 aequālis「相等」。
組成From Middle English inequalite, from Old French inequalité, from Latin inaequālis (unequal): in- (not) + aequālis (equal). Morphologically in- + equality, or inequal + -ity.
原始詞典資料3 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。
inequalitynoun/ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
- 1
Absence of equality.
- The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have-nots rebelled.
- The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his.
- 2
mathematicssciencesAbsence of equality.
- The inequality x is less than y, together with that ylt;z, allows us to deduce the inequality xlt;z.
- I then specify a set of new tight Bell inequalities for arbitrary event spaces -- the "even/odd" inequalities -- which have a straightforward interpretation when expressed in terms of multideviations.
- 3
Absence of equality.
- When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, upon which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been levelled by worms.
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