| 单词 | separate |
| 释义 | sep·a·rate I. transitive verb 1. a. < two longitudinal valleys separate the mountains into three high ranges — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > < a pull on the tab … separates seal just below cap — Modern Packaging > < separate the white from the yolk of an egg > b. < how difficult it is to separate religion from magic in the beliefs … of savages — W.R.Inge > < there is usually not much difficulty in separate a butterfly from a moth — A.D.Imms > c. < separate mail > < separate cards into suits > < parcels fly … as clerks separate them by regions and states — A.C.Fisher > d. < theaters in Canada are so widely separated that the costs of travelling are prohibitive — Report: (Canadian) Royal Commission on National Development > e. slang < tricks for separating country bumpkins from their bankrolls > < separate them from … money to back ventures that never were produced — E.D.Radin > 2. archaic < came into existence with the sense of being a “separated” nation, which God was using to make a new beginning for mankind — Reinhold Niebuhr > 3. a. < payments made to a divorced or legally separated wife — W.C.Warren&S.S.Surrey > b. < he was separated from the service with the rank of captain — E.J.Kahn > < more than 100 employees have been separated from the firm in the past six months > < any student who does not remove his probationary status … may be separated from the institution — Bulletin of Meharry Medical College > 4. < a … rood screen separates the nave from the chancel — American Guide Series: New York > < the rural worker … is not separated from the landed aristocracy by racial difference — P.E.James > 5. a. < separate cream from milk by putting it through a separator > < separate gold from an alloy > — often used with out < by whatever method the smaller organisms are separated out — R.E.Coker > < static episodes … separated out of a larger and more complex historical situation — M.D.Geismar > b. archaic < glands, which separate a substance that has the smell of musk — Jedidiah Morse > intransitive verb 1. < the airflow over the trailing edge of the flap has begun to separate — Skyways > < the Uralian languages … separate into three branches — W.K.Matthews > 2. a. < Puritans … unwilling to separate from the Established Church — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > b. < after two stormy years of married life the couple separated by mutual consent > 3. < after dinner we separated, the women to the library — Lucien Price > < thought the House would like to know, before it separated — Sir Winston Churchill > 4. < oil … separates readily from water — B.G.A.Skrotzki & W.A.Vopat > Synonyms: < separate the sheep from the goats > < the political boundary separating this country from Mexico — R.S.Thoman > < the ten centuries which separated the reign of Charlemagne and the reign of Napoleon — T.B.Macaulay > or a scattering or dispersion of units < the war separated many families > or a removal of one thing from another < separate a troublesome boy from a group > part suggests the separation, often complete, of two persons or things in close union or association, or of two parts of one thing < the two friends did not part until they had reached the station > < a man and wife parted only by death > < the cable parted under the strain > divide commonly stresses the idea of parts, groups, or sections resulting from cutting, breaking, partitioning, or branching < divide a cake into two pieces > < the land is divided by natural boundaries such as streams > < the auditorium proper divided into a pit, one or more galleries — C.F.Wittke > It can also be used in the sense of separate, especially when mutual antagonism or wide separation is suggested < the war divided many families > < no religious difference arose to divide the old inhabitants from the English — G.M.Trevelyan > < the suspicion which the Citizens' Committee predicted would divide neighbor from neighbor — David Clinton > sever often adds the idea of violence, suggesting forced separation, especially of part from whole or of persons joined in affection, close association, and so on < with one stroke he severed the head from the body > < man's ancestors later became severed from this separate line of evolution — R.W.Murray > < an immense peninsula slightly severed from the main mass — Forrest Morgan > < severs relations with a hostile nation > < severed friend from friend > sunder implies a violent rending or wrenching apart < the sundered atom — M.C.Faught > < the dearest ties of friendship and of blood were sundered — T.B.Macaulay > divorce, in implying the legal dissolution of a marriage, usually suggests the separation of things so closely associated that they interact, are often regarded as inseparable, or commonly work, often work best, only in union < an institution concerned with general education … divorced from research and education for the professions is admittedly not a university but a college — J.B.Conant > < form in art divorced from matter > < divorce the worker's income from any dependence on the efforts he makes — Time > < his gaiety was as divorced from scorn or cynicism as it was wedded to melancholy — John Mason Brown > II. 1. a. archaic < the tendency of prolonged separate confinement is to affect the mind — Edinburgh Review > < the plan of my bungalow, with all convenience for being separate and sulky when I please — Sir Walter Scott > b. < being … is now seen as the nature which constitutes separate entity — Alan Gewirth > c. < the more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates — T.S.Eliot > < ceremonial chambers … were built as separate units in the central courtyards — American Guide Series: Arizona > 2. a. < group consciousness … makes the individual think lightly of his own separate interests — M.R.Cohen > < the world's largest city deserves separate consideration — L.D.Stamp > b. often capitalized < there were 90 Separate churches, with 6,490 members — F.S.Mead > 3. a. < the partitioning of India created two separate jute economies — F.F.George > < reorganization of schools into separate primary and postprimary units — H.C.Dent > b. < my most recent works, in their separate ways, embody this tendency — Aaron Copland > < the full bibliography … lists 2204 separate publications — Geographical Journal > < built-in facilities … permit cooking in seven separate ways without the use of additional utensils — Report of General Motors Corp. > Synonyms: see distinct, single III. 1. usually capitalized 2. < sent out separates and reprints of his major monographs — J.C.Burnham > 3. 4. separates plural IV. < separated his left shoulder > |
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