词汇精选：notwithstanding的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
adv.
尽管，仍然，还是
例句：
He went notwithstanding he was ordered not to.
他虽被命令不许去，但他仍旧去了。
例句：
His relations with colleagues, differences of opinion notwithstanding, were unfailingly friendly.
尽管有意见分歧，他和同事们一直关系融洽。
conj.
尽管，虽然
例句：
He is honest, notwithstanding he is poor.
他虽贫穷，却诚实。
例句：
She is not clever, notwithstanding she is beautiful.
尽管她漂亮，但是并不聪明。
prep.
尽管，虽然
例句：
Notwithstanding his objections, the marriage took place.
尽管他有异议，婚礼还是进行了。
例句：
He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
尽管他和威廉·皮特看法相似，却瞧不起他。
二、词义辨析：
despite,in spite of,notwithstanding
这些前置词或前置短语都含有“虽然，尽管”之意。despite书面用词，指不受某事或某种原因的阻碍，语气轻于in spite of。in spite of在这些词中语气最强，可与despite换用，口语或书面语中均可使用。notwithstanding语气最弱，仅表示一种障碍的存在。
三、参考例句：
Notwithstanding his objections the marriage took place.
尽管他有异议，婚礼还是进行了。
Notwithstanding his objections, the marriage took place.
尽管他有异议，婚礼还是进行了。
He is honest, notwithstanding he is poor.
他虽贫穷，却诚实。
She is not clever, notwithstanding she is beautiful.
尽管她漂亮，但是并不聪明。
He went notwithstanding he was ordered not to.
他虽被命令不许去，但他仍旧去了。
His relations with colleagues, differences of opinion notwithstanding, were unfailingly friendly.
尽管有意见分歧，他和同事们一直关系融洽。
This notwithstanding, the dam is still the highest concrete arch dam in the world.
尽管如此，这座大坝依然是世界上最高的混凝土拱坝。
He despised William Pitt, notwithstanding the similar views they both held.
尽管他和威廉·皮特看法相似，却瞧不起他。
Notwithstanding all this furniture, there was still room to turn around in.
尽管有这些家具用品，倒还有转身余地。
He got drunk at the party notwithstanding his wife's warning.
尽管妻子警告过他，他还是在宴会上喝得烂醉。
