dichotomy

dichotomy

英 [daɪ'kɒtəmɪ; dɪ-]
　　美 [daɪ'kɑtəmi]

n. 二分法；兩分；分裂；雙歧分枝

中文詞源：

dichotomy 二分法，截然對立

dicho-, 二，來自di-的希臘語形式。-tomy, 砍，切，詞源同atom, anatomy. 即切成兩半的。

例句：

1. There is a dichotomy between the academic world and the industrial world.
學術界與工業界有著天壤之別。

2. Such a dichotomy cannot simply be attributed to coincidence.
這樣一種分歧不能簡單歸之於巧合.

3. If this dichotomy is maintained what happens to the rate of interest?
如果保持這種二分法,利率會怎樣 呢 ?

4. A basic dichotomy in epidemiology is whether a pathogen is residual or continental.
流行學中一個基本的區分是,病是殘留的還是大區的.

5. Can the Zeta's explain the hemisperical crustal dichotomy of the planet Mars?
齊塔人能否解釋下火星半球地殼兩分的(原理) 嗎 ?