a difference between two or more things that should be the same 差異;不符合;不一致 - discrepancy (in something)
wide discrepancies in prices quoted for the work 這項工作的報價出入很大 - discrepancy between A and B
What are the reasons for the discrepancy between girls' and boys' performance in school? 女生和男生在學校表現不同的原因何在呢?
Extra ExamplesThere were wide discrepancies in the evidence. 證據中有很大出入。 How do you explain the apparent discrepancies between the money and the receipts? 你如何解釋金額與收據的明顯出入? She failed to notice the discrepancy between the name on the cheque and the name on the driving licence. 她沒有注意到支票上的名字與駕駛執照上的名字不符。 the glaring discrepancy between the crime and the punishment 罪與罰的嚴重不符
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- glaring
- great
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- account for
- explain
- discover
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- exist
- arise
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- discrepancy between
- discrepancy in
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin discrepantia, from discrepare ‘be discordant’, from dis- ‘apart, away’ + crepare ‘to creak’.- discrepancy (in something)