a world of variations and diversities; be different in a thousand and one ways; differ in thousands of ways; highly diffe rentiated; of immense variety; infinite variations;no end of differences (/differentiations)
❍ 单纯的外部原因不能说明事物何以有性质上的～。The purely external causes cannot explain why things are qualitatively different in a thousand and one ways.
千差万别
vary greatly; differ in a thousand and one ways
东西方文化～。Eastern and western cultures vary greatly.
千差万别qiān chā wàn bié
形容各种各样的差别非常多。differ in thousands of ways, immense variety, a tremendous difference