詞彙精選：notwithstanding的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
adv.
儘管，仍然，還是
例句：
He went notwithstanding he was ordered not to.
他雖被命令不許去，但他仍舊去了。
例句：
His relations with colleagues, differences of opinion notwithstanding, were unfailingly friendly.
儘管有意見分歧，他和同事們一直關係融洽。
conj.
儘管，雖然
例句：
He is honest, notwithstanding he is poor.
他雖貧窮，卻誠實。
例句：
She is not clever, notwithstanding she is beautiful.
儘管她漂亮，但是並不聰明。
prep.
儘管，雖然
例句：
Notwithstanding his objections, the marriage took place.
儘管他有異議，婚禮還是進行了。
例句：
He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
儘管他和威廉·皮特看法相似，卻瞧不起他。
二、詞義辨析：
despite,in spite of,notwithstanding
這些前置詞或前置短語都含有“雖然，儘管”之意。despite書面用詞，指不受某事或某種原因的阻礙，語氣輕於in spite of。in spite of在這些詞中語氣最強，可與despite換用，口語或書面語中均可使用。notwithstanding語氣最弱，僅表示一種障礙的存在。
三、參考例句：
Notwithstanding his objections the marriage took place.
儘管他有異議，婚禮還是進行了。
Notwithstanding his objections, the marriage took place.
儘管他有異議，婚禮還是進行了。
He is honest, notwithstanding he is poor.
他雖貧窮，卻誠實。
She is not clever, notwithstanding she is beautiful.
儘管她漂亮，但是並不聰明。
He went notwithstanding he was ordered not to.
他雖被命令不許去，但他仍舊去了。
His relations with colleagues, differences of opinion notwithstanding, were unfailingly friendly.
儘管有意見分歧，他和同事們一直關係融洽。
This notwithstanding, the dam is still the highest concrete arch dam in the world.
儘管如此，這座大壩依然是世界上最高的混凝土拱壩。
He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
儘管他和威廉·皮特看法相似，卻瞧不起他。
Notwithstanding all this furniture, there was still room to turn around in.
儘管有這些傢俱用品，倒還有轉身餘地。
He got drunk at the party notwithstanding his wife's warning.
儘管妻子警告過他，他還是在宴會上喝得爛醉。
