incongruity

1. N-VAR 不协调;不适宜;不相称
   The incongruity of something is its strangeness when considered together with other aspects of a situation.
   1. She smiled at the incongruity of the question.
      面对这样突兀的问题,她笑了。
   2. ...the almost absurd incongruity between her wealth and her lifestyle.
      她的财富与生活方式之间几近荒谬的不相称
   3. ...the incongruities of life in war-time London.
      战时伦敦生活的不协调

1. She smiled at the incongruity of the question.
   面对这样突兀的问题，她笑了。
2. How do we resolve this apparent incongruity?
   怎样解决这一明显的不一致呢？
3. Asked Hester, half smiling at the absurd incongruity of the child's observation; but, on second thoughts, turning pale.
   海丝特问道，起初还因为孩子那番话荒诞不经而面带微笑；但转念一想，面孔就苍白了。
4. Robert De Niro is the displaced patriarch, Michelle Pfeiffer plays his wife and there are two teenage children, acute cultural differences, random acts of inappropriate violence, and general incongruity.
   罗伯特德尼罗扮演这一流离失所家庭中的父亲，米歇尔菲佛饰演他的妻子，片中，他们两个十几岁的孩子，因文化差异不同，不时作出不恰当的暴力举动，该家庭也因此与小镇生活有些不入。
5. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.
   但在很短的时间内，为一部庄重的影片演奏快活的音乐所产生的不协调感变得显而易见，因此钢琴家们开始注意将自己的作品与影片的情调结合起来。
6. The causes of the health value loss lie in both the structure incongruity of standard system and the deficiency of supporting tools.
   环境标准的健康价值失落既有内在体系构造上的不协调性，也有外部配套机制的耦合不足。
7. Characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is.
   以期望与实际之间经常性的令人不快的差异或者不和谐为特点。
8. However, a mere discussion of the entertainment of incongruity is not adequate for revealing the cognitive process of humor understanding.
   我们认为仅仅探讨不和谐因素的获得并不足于解释幽默的整个认知过程。
9. Restoration of the normal anatomy of the hip joint is essential as any incongruity of the joint can lead to erosion of the articular cartilage resulting in post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
   恢复髋关节的正常解剖关系是根本性的，关节的任何不协调都有可能导致关节软骨的破坏，进而导致创伤性关节炎。
10. To the neglect of the Landscape because of the outdoor advertisement design of our country at present, have caused all sorts of incongruity phenomena between outdoor advertisement and cityscape.
    由于目前我国户外广告设计对景观的忽视，造成了户外广告和城市景观之间种种的不调和现象。
11. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
    可以引起笑声的巧妙的或机智的或不协调的信息。
12. It's not the case that incongruity causes laughter.
    笑不是由不一致引起的。
13. Incongruity-Resolution Theory of humor claims that the humorous effect arises from the perception of two incompatible ideas and the resolution of the incongruity.
    幽默的乖讹-消解理论提出，幽默效果的产生依赖于发现并解决乖讹。
14. The court's concern about avoiding "incongruity" suggests that Morrison was not intended to cast doubt on the president's exclusive right to appoint most agency heads and high ranking policymakers.
    法院对避免“不协调”的关注表明，“莫里森”案并非打算怀疑总统任命多数行政长官和高级决策人的行政权。
15. The apparent incongruity of a scientist having a simple religious faith.
    身为科学家而有单纯的宗教信仰那种明显的不协调。
16. Cognitive dissonance is also applied to a perceived incongruity between a person's attitudes and his behaviour.
    认识分歧也用于指一个人的态度和他的行为之间可以看得出来的不一致。
17. Asked hester, half smiling at the absurd incongruity of the child's observation;
    海丝特问道，起初还因为孩子那番话荒诞不经而面带微笑；
18. Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds ( even to the point of incongruity).
    有不同种类事物的偶然搭配而组成（甚至到了不调和的程度）。
19. He seemed unaware of the incongruity of his appearance.
    他似乎没注意到自己的外表很怪。
20. If there is any incongruity in these areas it will increase the chance of a less than enjoyable internship, which quickly becomes evident when the daily work hours consistently hit the double-digits mark.
    如果这些方面存在冲突，你的实习经历可能就会不那么愉快当每天的工作小时数经常突破两位数时，这一点很快就会变得明显。
21. The most influential theories that explain psychological mechanism of humor are superiority theories, relief or arousal theories and incongruity theories, which can explain different humors.
    有关幽默的心理机制的理论解释中，最有代表性的是优势理论、释放理论和失谐理论。
22. The nature of humor, according to the author of this article, lies in its incongruity, which identifies with the thematic essence of the novel.
    本文认为幽默的本质在于“不一致性”，它与小说《围城》的思想主旨切合。
23. Dada, a European artistic and literary movement ( 1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
    达达主义运动，欧洲文学艺术界的运动（1916-1923），通过随意涂写、嘲讽及不和谐的作品来藐视传统的艺术和文化价值。
24. It doesn't explain why we make that loud noise when dealing with incongruity.
    它无法解释为什么遇到不一致时，我们会发出这种大声的声音。
25. There is also an element of incongruity in the writer's description.
    作者的描述同样包含着一个不和谐因素。
26. It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity.
    这是一个可由哀愁变为狂喜而又不引起任何严重不协调感的夜晚。
27. Analysts have pointed out the apparent incongruity of the worst Chinese bank raising the most money in what could be the world's largest IPO.
    分析师们指出，中国业绩最糟糕的银行将可能在全球最大的IPO中筹得最多的资金，这显然是荒谬的。
28. A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
    预期的和发生的不一致的一种修辞。
29. Fourthly, there is incongruity between the vocabulary teaching method and the ways of assessment.
    第四，词汇教授方法和评价方法不匹配。

noun

1. the quality of disagreeing

   Synonym:    incongruousness