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近义词separate partition split sort share

vt. 划分；除；分开；使产生分歧
vi. 分开；意见分歧
n. [地理] 分水岭，分水线

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词态变化

第三人称单数: divides;过去式: divided;过去分词: divided;现在分词: dividing;

中文词源

divide 分开

di-, 分开，来自dis-变体。-vid, 分开，词源同wide, widow.

英英释意

1. a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

2. a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

英文词源

divide: divide: [14] Etymologically, divide shares its underlying notion of ‘separation’ with widow ‘woman parted from or bereft of her husband’, which comes ultimately from the same source. English acquired it from Latin dīvidere ‘split up, divide’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and -videre, a verbal element meaning ‘separate’ which is represented in Sanskrit vindháte ‘is empty’ as well as in widow, and goes back to an Indo-European base *weidh- ‘separate’.

English device and devise come ultimately from *dīvisāre, a Vulgar Latin derivative of dīvidere, and individual belongs to the same word family.
=> device, individual, widow
divide (v.): early 14c., from Latin dividere "to force apart, cleave, distribute," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + -videre "to separate," from PIE root *weidh- "to separate" (see widow; also see with).

Mathematical sense is from early 15c. Divide and rule (c. 1600) translates Latin divide et impera, a maxim of Machiavelli. Related: Divided; dividing.
divide (n.): 1640s, "act of dividing," from divide (v.). Meaning "watershed, separation between river valleys" is first recorded 1807, American English.

同义词辨析

assign, distribute, divide, allocate

这些动词均含"分配，分发"之意。

assign：指按照某种原则进行的硬性分配，也不一定是很公平的。

distribute：通常指以整体或定量分为若干份来分配。

divide：普通用词，侧重将某物分成若干份分配给他人，当某物一分为二时，含平均分配之意。

allocate：主要指金钱、财产、权力或领土等的分配，着重分配的比例和专门用途。

divide, separate, part, divorce

这些动词都有"分开"之意。

divide：指把一个整体按要求分成几个部分，暗示分配之意；也可指分开两个对立的事物。

separate：指把两个人或物分开，着重从原属一个整体中移居一部分或把两者隔开。

part：多指使紧密相连的人或物分开，往往暗示最后分离的意味。

divorce：特指两个或更多的互为依赖的事物的分离，尤指婚姻的合法解体。

考试真题

When you look at attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesn't seem to be a clear generational divide.

It does not seem to create a generational divide.

The big change is the availability of more data about people and things, which allows physical assets to be divided and consumed as services.

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 32 elements: class, sex, and generation .

But by demonstrating their common sense, they've shown that the divide between cats and humans may not be that great after all.

But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.

In fact, the more information flows throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between "information haves" and "information have-nots", leading to digital divide .

In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class.

with regard to sex, digital divide exists between men and women.

They may be forced to divide their attention.

consciousness raising, and non-sexist child rearing would close the gender divide once and for all.

Based on answers to questions regarding their job hunting strategies and career decisions, he divided the students into two groups: maximizers, who consider every possible option, and satisficers, who look until they find an option that is good enough.

Analyzing and comparing cities using the lens of this basic divide gives interesting context to how investment capital flows and housing prices have shifted.

These days, though, the divide between rich and poor is greater than it has ever been.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I encounter tend to act.

It's much more helpful to say something like, " I think we had better have another look about how we divide up the housework.

News stories are roughly divided into two classes.

The circle is divided into sections, and each section represents a fraction of the data.

Therefore, while the division of categories holds in general, an individual's tendency may transfer any story from one kind of reading to another, or divide the experience between the two kinds of reward.

Though the relationship may not be causal, helping divided communities to prepare for disasters would at least reduce the risk that those disasters are followed by killing and wounding people.

We can achieve a lot when we learn to let our differences unite, rather than divide us.

With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next.

None of these tricks will help you understand them, their positions or the issues that divide you, but they can help you win-in one way.

These tools can help you win every argument 一 not in the unhelpful sense of beating your opponents but in the better sense of learning about the issues that divide people.

We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad.

词组搭配

divide and rule (或 conquer)

the policy of maintaining control over one's subordinates or subjects by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting to overthrow one

分而治之

the politics of divide and rule in society.
对社会实行分而治之的政治。

divided against itself

(of a group which should be coherent) split by factional interests

（本该一致的团体因不同派系利益而）分裂的

the regime is profoundly divided against itself.
该政权四分五裂。

实用场景例句

the North/South divide: 南北分歧

the divide between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: 北爱尔兰的天主教徒和新教徒之间的分歧

The issue has divided the government.: 这个问题在政府中引起了意见分歧。

30 divided by 6 is 5 (30 ÷ 6 = 5) .: 30除以6等于5。

5 divides into 30 6 times.: 5除30等于6。

a policy of divide and rule: 分而治之的政策

Can it ever be right to divide a mother from her child?: 让母子分离难道还有对的时候？

A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.: 篱笆把庭院的西面隔开。

Where the path divides, keep right.: 来到岔路口就靠右行。

The cells began to divide rapidly.: 细胞迅速分裂。

A sentence can be divided up into meaningful segments.: 一个句子可以划分成有意义的各个部分。

Jack divided up the rest of the cash.: 杰克把余下的现金分了。

We divided the work between us.: 我们共同分担这项工作。

He divides his energies between politics and business.: 他把精力一部分用在政治上，一部分用在生意上。

She has done more to divide the Conservatives than anyone else...: 她在分裂保守党这件事上所起的作用比任何人都大。

The democrats are divided over whether to admit him into their group...: 民主党人就是否允许他加入他们的组织意见不一。

...a deliberate attempt to create a Hindu-Muslim divide in India.: 故意在印度的印度教徒和穆斯林之间制造分歧的企图

The time had come to cross the great divide between formality and truth.: 是时候跨越形式与真理之间的巨大分界线了。

The government's policies of divide and rule have only contributed to the volatility of the region.: 政府分而治之的政策只是加剧了该地区的不稳定性。

...the artificial line that divides the city.: 划分城市的人为分界线

...remote border areas dividing Tamil and Muslim settlements.: 将泰米尔聚居区和穆斯林聚居区隔开的偏远边境地区

Measure the floor area of the greenhouse and divide it by six.: 量一下温室的建筑面积再将它除以 6。

The physical benefits of exercise can be divided into three factors...: 运动对身体的好处可以分为3个方面。

It will be easiest if we divide them into groups...: 如果我们将他们分成小组将是最简单的。

Paul divides most of his spare time between the study and his bedroom...: 保罗在大部分空闲时间里要么呆在书房里，要么呆在卧室里。

Divide the sauce among 4 bowls.: 把酱汁分到 4 个碗里。

Add all the numbers together, divide by ten, and take away the number you first thought of.: 把这些数相加, 除以10, 然后减去你一开始想着的数字.

We often divide a river into three parts, that is the upper, middle and lower reaches.: 我们经常把一条河分成三部分:上游、中游和下游.

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divide and rule (或 conquer)

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