Incongruity

(noun.) the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate.

编辑:莎蒂

• Now, it is a mere anomaly and incongruity here, out of date and out of purpose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Although he was dressed correctly for his part, yet there was an innate incongruity which caused a slight ridiculousness in his appearance. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• With all the incongruities of his character, Raymond was emphatically a man of the world. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• One can comprehend it only when night has hidden all incongruities and created a theatre proper for so grand a drama. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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