单词 | dissect |
释义 | dissect (once / 1552 pages) v When you dissect a frog in science class, you cut it open to look at its inner organs. To dissect is to break something down to look at its parts. Dissecting something allows you to look at it closely and understand it better. If your soccer team loses a match, you might want to dissect the game afterward to try to find exactly how and when things went wrong. Television analysts will often dissect a political speech to understand what was really being said, how true the statements were, and how well it was done. WORD FAMILYdissect: dissected, dissecting, dissection, dissects+/dissection: dissections USAGE EXAMPLESThere are many ways of dissecting the Brexit vote, but the starkest is by income. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) McSorley led Penn State’s 21-point comeback against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Conference title game by dissecting the Badgers’ secondary in the second half. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) When the frogs are dissected, they gloop and glop, their bellies splayed open and their impressive viscera sproinging this way and that. The New Yorker(Dec 15, 2016) 1v cut open or cut apart dissect the bodies for analysis Hypo|Hyper vivisect cut (a body) open while still alive anatomise, anatomizedissect in order to analyze cut separate with or as if with an instrument 2v make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features Syn|Ant|Hypo analyse, analyze, break down, take apart synthesise, synthesize combine so as to form a more complex, product parse analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) botanise, botanizecollect and study plants |
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