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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 at variance
 (ad.)有分歧,不和

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Va·ri·ance n.
 1. The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
 2. Difference that produces dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
    That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance.   --Shak.
 3. Law A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.
 At variance, in disagreement; in a state of dissension or controversy; at enmity.  “What cause brought him so soon at variance with himself?”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 at variance
      adj : not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely
            discrepant statements" [syn: at variance(p), discrepant]