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TEM8 GRE
外刊例句
- Those frustrated by enduring levels of inequality are contemplating ever bolder ways to redress the lopsided balance between owners and workers.
不平等程度持续不减,对此深感挫败的人士正在考虑更大胆的办法来改变资本家与劳动者之间的财力失衡。
——《经济学人》 - They had not needed to win, after all, just merely avoid a lopsided defeat.
毕竟,他们不需要胜利,只需要避免一边倒的失败而已。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[adjective] with one side lower or smaller than the other
[形容词] 一侧低于或小于另一侧的
深入解读
Lopsided 一词源自动词 lop (无力地下垂、耷拉)+名词 side (一边、一侧)构造而来,也作 lop-sided ,最初用来表示船只“由于不平衡而偏向一侧的”。
发展到现在则是用来泛指“一侧比另一侧低或小的”或者说“向一侧倾斜的”,比如:
- 她撇嘴一笑。
She gave a lopsided grin. - 他那套素净灰西装的两肩不平,让他整个人看起来一边高一边低。
His sober grey suit had shoulders that made him look lopsided.
从这个概念出发, lopsided 常用来喻指情况、票数等“悬殊的、严重不平衡的”,即缺乏平衡、对称或均衡而使某一边不成比例地过量的,或者过分偏袒一方而非另一方的,比如:
- 一面倒的胜利
a lopsided victory - 这篇措词强硬的文章对事情的看法显得有些片面。
The strident article presents a somewhat lopsided view of events.
名著用例
A lumpy-looking man with an odd lopsided leer gave a wheezy giggle.
一个身材粗壮、脸上带着古怪狞笑的歪嘴男人发出了呼哧带喘的笑声。
出自英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第六本《哈利·波特与混血王子》(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)。
同近义词
- askew: not in a straight or level position
- asymmetrical: having parts that fail to correspond to one another in shape, size, or arrangement; lacking symmetry
- awry: out of the normal or correct position; askew