e different from = be other than = differ from (differ在这边是different的动词形式) = be not the same as ---,这些都是固定短语,与---不同 例如: 1.他们的动机不同于我的. Their motivation is other than me. 2.The story he told police differed from the one he told his mother. 他告诉警察的话和告诉他母亲的不同. 3.I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop,in a street that is not the same as I remember it. 我们这条街和我记得的过去的那一条街已经不一样了;我是这条街上一个老式的店铺中的一位老式的人.