poles apart

基本解释

The challenges are huge, not least because planes and submarines are normally poles apart.
所面临的技术挑战非常大，不仅仅因为飞机和潜艇走了截然相反的两条路。
I find it so predictable what each side will say, since they always invite people who have opinions that are poles apart .
我发现每方的陈述都是可预知的，因为他们总是邀请那些观点相差甚远的人。
What causes this generation to be poles apart from its predecessors is not just its demographic force but that it is the first to mature surrounded by digital media.
造成这一代人与先祖们截然相反的原因不仅仅是因为人口（众多）的力量，而更因为这是最先成功围绕在数字媒体周围的一代人。

But Plato's Socrates is necessarily poles apart from Aristophanes' Socrates depiction of him as a sort of sophist who makes the weaker argument the stronger.
但柏拉图的苏格拉底必然不同于,亚里斯多芬尼斯对苏格拉底的描述,后者将他描写成是,让虚弱申辩转强的诡辩家。
耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The FTC and Wyndham are poles apart on their estimates of the effect of the credit-card thefts.
ECONOMIST: Businesses and cyber-security
"The good thing is, we're not poles apart in brand imagery and there's no overlap between our vehicles, " points out Pawan Goenka, the ex-GM executive who heads Mahindra's auto and farm-equipment business and now chairs SsangYong.
FORBES: The Global 2000
The region is also in danger of falling under the strange influence of insurgent and terrorist groups, drug cartels and distant countries that historically have been poles apart from the region's culture and civilization (mainly Iran, China, and perhaps Russia).
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy