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ADV
（在空間上）相隔，相距
When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other.
例句
He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us...
他站在離我們其余人不遠(yuǎn)的地方，看著我們。
She saw Sheila standing some distance apart...
她看見希拉站開了一段距離。
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ADV
往不同方向；分開
If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other.
例句
John and Isabelle moved apart, back into the sun...
約翰和伊莎貝拉彼此分開，回到了陽光下。
He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened.
鄰居過來幫忙前，他費(fèi)了半天勁兒也沒把兩只狗分開。
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ADV
分手；分離
If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time.
例句
It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days...
那是我第一次和簡分開數(shù)日。
Mum and Dad live apart.
媽媽和爸爸分居。
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ADV
成零碎;散開
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.
例句
When the clock stopped he took it apart to find out what was wrong...
鐘一不走了，他就把它拆開看看哪兒出毛病了。
Many school buildings are unsafe, and some are falling apart.
許多校舍不安全，有些簡直是搖搖欲墜。
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ADV
垮掉；分裂；解體
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.
例句
Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders...
每個(gè)經(jīng)理都知道只要自己的注意力有所分散，公司就會分崩離析。
Her marriage to film producer Michael Greenburg fell apart.
她和電影制片人邁克爾·格林伯格的婚姻破裂了。
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ADV
與眾不同地；獨(dú)特地
If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things.
例句
What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes from northern Thailand...
他信先生真正與眾不同之處是他來自泰國北部。
Health spending tends to rise disproportionately as countries become richer; but even adjusting for this, America is a case apart.
隨著國家愈加富有，醫(yī)療保健費(fèi)用增加的幅度卻往往與之不成比例；但即使美國為此作出調(diào)整，還是與別國不同。
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ADJ
意見不一致的；有分歧的
If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it.
例句
Officials say they're so far apart on such a wide range of issues there's no telling how long the talks could drag on...
官員們聲稱他們在許多問題上分歧甚大，所以無法預(yù)見談判將拖多久。
Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart.
他們對于表演的理解和我們的大相徑庭。
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PHRASE
區(qū)分;分辨
If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you.
例句
I can still only tell Mark and Dave apart by the colour of their shoes!
我仍然只能根據(jù)鞋子的顏色來區(qū)分馬克和戴夫！
Free range and battery eggs, boiled for four minutes, were hard to tell apart.
柴雞蛋和籠養(yǎng)雞蛋在煮過4分鐘之后很難區(qū)分。