单词 | apart |
释义 | 1. positions and states2. indicating exceptions and focusing apart (əpɑːʳt ) positions and states In addition to the uses shown below, apart is used in phrasal verbs such as 'grow apart' and 'take apart'.1. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B1 When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other. He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us. [+ from] She saw Sheila standing some distance apart. Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other. [+ from] ...regions that were too far apart to have any way of knowing about each other. He was standing, feet apart. Synonyms: aside, away, alone, independently 2. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B1 If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other. John and Isabelle moved apart, back into the sun. He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened. 3. adverb [be ADVERB, ADVERB after verb] B2 If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time. It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days. The law forbade spouses to live apart for any length of time. 4. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 If you take something apart, you separate it into the pieces that it is made of. If it comes or falls apart, its parts separate from each other. When the clock stopped he took it apart to find out what was wrong. Many school buildings are unsafe, and some are falling apart. Synonyms: to pieces, to bits, asunder [literary], into parts 5. adverb [ADVERB after verb] B2 If something such as an organization or relationship falls apart, or if something tears it apart, it can no longer continue because it has serious difficulties. Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders. The couple's relationship fell apart. 6. adverb [ADVERB after verb, noun ADVERB] If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things. What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes from northern Thailand. 7. adjective If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it. It's a bit worrying that we are so far apart on this. Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart. 8. can't tell apart phrase If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you. I can still only tell Mark and Dave apart by the colour of their shoes! Free range and battery eggs, boiled for four minutes, were hard to tell apart. apart (əpɑːʳt ) indicating exceptions and focusing 1. apart from phrase B1 You use apart from when you are making an exception to a general statement. The room was empty apart from one man seated beside the fire. There were no others apart from me and the trainer. Synonyms: except for, excepting, other than, excluding 2. adverb [noun ADVERB] You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement. This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown. 3. phrase B2 You use apart from to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who cannot read or write is unlikely to get a job. There was always something to look forward to, apart from Rachel's visits. 4. adverb [noun ADVERB] You use apart to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. That argument apart, it is for the members themselves to decide how they should work together. Idioms: poles apart very different The East seemed to be poles apart from the capitalist West. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers come apart at the seams to be in a very bad state and about to fail University lecturers have given a warning that Britain's university system is in danger of coming apart at the seams because of cuts in government funding. to behave in a strange or illogical way, because you are under severe mental strain He stood for a moment, breathing deeply; he was coming apart at the seams, something he had never thought would happen to him. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: blast apart The other wants to use the pandemic, and climate change, as a pretext to blast apart its foundations. Times,Sunday Times The company has benefited handsomely from fracking, a gas-drilling method that uses high-pressure water and chemicals to blast apart underground rock formations. Times, Sunday Times Fracking, a hydraulic fracturing process, involves pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals underground to blast apart previously untappable geological formations. Times, Sunday Times The technique uses millions of gallons of water and chemicals to blast apart underground rock. Times, Sunday Times The government launched an inquiry into the drilling technique, which uses water and chemicals at high pressure to blast apart underground rock formations. Times, Sunday Times Anyone who has seen an innocent text blown apart by auteurism will know what he means. The Times Literary Supplement (2011) THE Euro will be blown apart unless leaders act to fix the debt crisis this week, economists warned yesterday. The Sun (2011) There is nothing to suggest that in between trips my life has been irreversibly blown apart. LOVE YOU MADLY (2002) Don't let the liquid boil, because that will make them break apart. Times,Sunday Times When combined, these forces could easily cause both of them to break apart. Times, Sunday Times They will break apart as the month goes on, and fill the gutters with fluffy, yellowish seeds. Times, Sunday Times At sunset, colours can be particularly enticing - but keep your distance - an iceberg can break apart at a moment's notice. Times, Sunday Times I would break apart the themes, the sentences, even the individual words of a given passage. Christianity Today With the seal removed from its resting place, the moon begins to crack apart, causing unpredictable and violent tides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As some minerals expand more than others, temperature changes set up differential stresses that eventually cause the rock to crack apart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A series that cracks apart the outcome of jealousy in sombre, slow-burning fashion. Times,Sunday Times Horse-chestnut buds are cracking apart. Times, Sunday Times His body was slowing cracking apart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Along the way studio walls fly apart to become scene transitions, and memories and flashbacks are projected on to interior scenes. Times,Sunday Times It was a way of imposing order on creative lives so busy that they might otherwise fly apart. The Times Literary Supplement Astronomers had realised that many galaxies — clusters of stars that dominate the visible universe — move so fast that they should fly apart. Times, Sunday Times In this case, the force causes things to fly apart, not stay in the bucket. Christianity Today The nucleus then splits into two pieces that fly apart. Times, Sunday Times Another leitmotif is a selfquestioning ars poetica, and the two aren't necessarily kept apart. The Times Literary Supplement (2016) The rival groups were kept apart by a huge police presence. Times, Sunday Times (2015) They are kept apart and we organised totally different practice times. The Sun (2008) Romantic comedy is about what happens when two people who are in love, or might be, are kept apart. Times, Sunday Times (2011) She turns them up on end-pulls the place apart. Christianity Today I can write any place apart from home. Times, Sunday Times International buyers see the capital as a safe haven, a place apart from the eurozone's woes. Times, Sunday Times Place apart on a greased baking sheet and press your thumb into each ball. Times, Sunday Times A place apart, a city state within the state. Times, Sunday Times Space apart on the baking sheet. Times, Sunday Times These marked points should be a set amount of space apart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Order for the ranks of the formation to space apart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The glass of his pocket watch was shattered, however, a half crown in his pocket was partially melted and his shoes split apart. Times, Sunday Times In the space of a 30-second phone call, they'd split apart. Times, Sunday Times Which begs the question, did fluorescence evolve in mammals before the three branches split apart? Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also notes that those electrolyzers require membranes to keep the oxygen and hydrogen molecules separated once they’re split apart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Agonized laboring led to it, vast upheavals of intergalactic space, time split apart, a wrenching and tearing of the very sinews of reality itself. Christianity Today His attention to detail and observant eye make his stories stand apart from the rest of the crowd, not his suffering. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Full of rhetorical flourishes that bob along the way, neither standing apart from the orchestral textures nor biting into them. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The crust of the continents tends to stand apart from much of the activity at subduction zones. THE EARTH: An Intimate History (2004) From her first summit meeting, she stood apart, and the world couldn't help but notice. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Cameras capable of taking 2,000 digital frames a second are positioned both inside and outside the track to tease apart the winners and the losers. Times, Sunday Times She’ll then run a bite of that granola bar through the mass spectrometer to tease apart every single molecule that it’s made of. Smithsonian Mag Soak a cotton bud in it, apply to the affected area (do not use near the eyes, mouth or on broken skin), then gently tease apart. Times, Sunday Times Finally, it can be difficult to reconstruct and tease apart all splicing isoforms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It teases apart the themes without hitting you over the head with them. Times,Sunday Times The film doesn't stint on the harrowing details of families wrenched apart. Times, Sunday Times They had been wrenched apart in spite of themselves. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a region of strong gravitational tidal forces, the two particles in a pair may sometimes be wrenched apart before they have a chance to mutually annihilate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 分离, 成零碎 Japanese: 別個に, ばらばらに |
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