• adj. 不同的；多種多樣的；變化多的

di-, 分開，散開，來自dis-變體。-verse, 轉(zhuǎn)，詞源同converse, versus. 即轉(zhuǎn)開，多樣的。

diverse

diverse: [13] Diverse is one of a small family of English words, including also divers, divert, and divorce, which come ultimately from Latin dīvertere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘a(chǎn)side’ and vertere ‘turn’ (source of English verse, version, vertebra, etc and related to worth), and hence meant literally ‘turn aside, turn out of the way’.

It developed in various metaphorical directions, however. One was ‘turn one’s husband or wife out of the way’ which, via the variant dīvortere, gave English divorce [14]. The central sense of the verb passed more or less unchanged into English, via French divertir, as divert [15], but its past participle diversus illustrates a further metaphorical strand, in which ‘turned aside’ has become ‘separate, different’.

English acquired this via Old French in the 13th century in two distinct forms: masculine divers and feminine diverse. The present-day semantic distinction between the former (‘various, several’) and the latter (‘different’) had established itself by around 1700.
=> divert, divorce, verse, version, worth

diverse (adj.)

c. 1300, spelling variant of divers (q.v.), perhaps by analogy with converse, traverse, etc. In some cases directly from Latin diversus, and since c. 1700 restricted to the meaning "different in character or quality." Related: Diversely.

1. India has always been one of the most religiously diverse countries.

印度一直都是宗教信仰最多元的國家之一。

來自柯林斯例句

2. people from diverse cultures

不同文化背景的人

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. The Judaeo-Christian tradition is diverse, jumbled, contradictory, at every point inviting inquiry and debate.

猶太-基督教傳統(tǒng)呈現(xiàn)多樣化，混亂復(fù)雜，相互矛盾，在各個方面都會引發(fā)質(zhì)疑和爭論。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career.

戴維斯在事業(yè)突飛猛進的同時并未放棄自己廣泛的興趣愛好。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The word is now used in a sense diverse from the original meaning.

在某種意義上說,此詞現(xiàn)在的含義與最初的含義完全不同.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》