disjunction

Word family

dis·junc·tion /dɪsˈdʒʌŋkʃən/, disjuncture /dɪsˈdʒʌŋktʃə $ -ər/ noun [countableC usually singular] formal

a difference between two things that you would expect to be in agreement 不同，不一致，相悖

a disjunction between the skills taught in schools and the skills demanded by employers

學校裏教的技能與僱主要求的技能之間的差異

Examples from the Corpus

disjunction• There is certainly a disjunction in our lives between the pace we force upon ourselves and the pace that nature affords us.• In a turbulent environment, diversity, contradiction and disjunction are the norm.• Yet there is a very big disjunction here.• In fact, the disjunction between promise and reality is frequent and extensive in many political systems.• Tragicomedy gives the disjunction of the subjective and objective visions of the human situation dramatic form.• It is worth going through the list to see how great the disjunction is.• It is this disjunction which is the historic crisis of Western society.• Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends.

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Corpus

BNC: 25877 COCA: 23304

disjunction

Closeness and distance: distance, interval, proximity...