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　　by contrast 与之相反，反过来

　　释义

　　You say by contrast or in contrast, or in contrast to something, to show that you are mentioning a very different situation from the one you have just mentioned.

　　例句

　　While government shutdown suggests worrisome federal financial status, the private sector, by contrast, has plenty of money to spend.

　　GRE

　　For Gilpin, by contrast, the landscape was neither an empty vista awaiting human settlement nor a jewel-like scene resisting human intrusion, but a peopled landscape with a rich history and tradition of its own, an environment that shaped and molded the lives of its inhabitants.

　　与之相反的是，在Gilpin看来这片土地既不是等待人类定居的旷野，也不是拒绝人类闯入的珠宝般的自然风光，而是拥有着自身丰富历史和传统的有人居住的环境，这种环境塑造了居住于其中的人的生活。

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