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If something is torn asunder, it is pulled violently apart — ripped to pieces, not just opened or broken a little. The word is old, and it still sounds like a book, a church, or a dramatic news headline.
If something is torn asunder如果某樣東西被 torn asunder, it is pulled violently apart它是被猛烈地扯開 — ripped to pieces, not just opened or broken a little撕成碎片，而不只是打開或稍微破損 The word is old這個詞很古老, and而且 it still sounds like a book, a church, or a dramatic news headline聽起來還是像書本、教堂，或戲劇化的新聞標題
You do not use it when a bag splits at the night market. You use it when a bridge is blown apart, a family is smashed by a fight, or a country is ripped in two.
You do not use it你不會用它 when a bag splits at the night market當夜市裡一個袋子破掉時 You use it你會用它 when a bridge is blown apart當一座橋被炸毀, a family is smashed by a fight一個家庭因為爭吵而破碎, or a country is ripped in two或一個國家被撕裂成兩半
The King James Bible made one line famous: what God has joined together, let no one put asunder — meaning, do not split this married pair. People still quote that, even if they never use asunder the rest of the year.
The King James Bible made one line famous欽定版聖經讓一句話變得有名: what God has joined together, let no one put asunder「神所配合的，人不可分開」 — meaning意思是, do not split this married pair不要拆散這對已婚夫妻 People still quote that人們至今還會引用這句話, even if they never use asunder the rest of the year即使他們一年裡其他時候都不會用到 asunder 這個字
Though actually, newspapers borrow it when they want a shock: “a party torn asunder.” It is an adverb (and sometimes an adjective): the tearing happens asunder. It is not a verb. You cannot “asunder” a thing.
Though actually不過老實說, newspapers borrow it報紙會借用它 when they want a shock當他們想製造衝擊效果時: "a party torn asunder."「一個被撕裂的政黨。」 It is an adverb (and sometimes an adjective)它是一個副詞（有時也是形容詞）: the tearing happens asunder撕裂是以 asunder 這種方式發生的 It is not a verb它不是一個動詞 You cannot "asunder" a thing你不能說「asunder」某個東西
組成From Old English on- (“on, upon”) + sundor (“apart, separately, privately”). The picture is “into a state of being apart.”
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- sunderan old verb meaning to split apart; asunder is the ‘into pieces / apart’ form of the same idea
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
asunderadv詞源 1/əˈsʌndə/
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archaicliteraryOf two or more people or things:
- Page. I vvarrant you, hee's the man ſhould fight vvith him. / […] [Robert] Shal[low]. It appeares ſo by his vveapons: keep them aſunder: […]
- Heer's a coyle to keep fire and tovv a ſunder.
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archaicliteraryOf two or more people or things:
- Our hartes ſwelled, as that they ſhoulde breake / The fire of loue, was ſo ſore kept vnder / When I from her, ſhoulde departe aſunder
- Thoughe the lordes departed euery daye vnagreed⸝ yet they departed a ſõder [a sonder] right amiably⸝ for euery daye they poynted to mete agayne the nexte day⸝ bothe parties truſtyng at laſt to cõclude [conclude] on ſome good poynt.
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archaicliteraryInto separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action.
- to crack asunder torn asunder
- And he [Judas Iscariot] hath nowe poſſeſſed a plott of grounde with the rewarde off iniquyte. And when he was hanged⸝ braſt [burst] a ſondre in the myddes⸝ and all his bowels guſſhed out.
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archaicobsoleteliteraryApart from other people; individually, separately; specifically, in private, privately.
- […] I was of the ſame Jeſus Chriſt inſtitute: ſo this préeminence may I lawfully chalenge, that Chriſt choſe them, what tyme he was to our bodily infirmities ſubiect, but me called to be a ſondre to be his preacher, what tyme he had put of all condicions of mannes weakenes.
- [I]t vvas Employment enough for us to keep them [the prisoners] aſſunder, and ſupply them vvith Victuals.
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archaicobsoleteliteraryChiefly in the form to know asunder: in a manner distinguishable from other similar things.
- Ye summond our kynge,—why dyd ye so? / […] / Know ye not suger and salt asonder? / Your sumner to saucy, to malapert, / Your harrold in armes not yet halfe experte.
- Foure ſorts of Marle be found in this VVeald, knovvne aſunder by the difference of colours, and thereby alſo differing in degrees of goodneſſe one from the other: […]
asunderadj詞源 1/əˈsʌndə/
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archaicobsoleteliteraryDifferent, unlike.
- Moth[er]: I cannot blame thee. / But it greeues thee more that Villaine liues. / Iul[iet]: VVhat Villaine Madame? / Moth: That Villaine Romeo. / Iul: Villaine and he are manie miles a ſunder.
asunderverb詞源 2/əˈsʌndə/
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archaicliteraryTo set apart (one or more people or things) from other people or things; to put asunder, to separate, to sunder.
- A plough beetle, ploughſtaff, to further the plough, / great clod to a ſunder that breaketh ſo rough: […]
- Thou could not be perſvvaded that my vvittes / Could once retire ſo farre from ſence aſondred, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。