喜樂美語
  1. 1四分五裂；撕裂開（書面、古意）

    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. 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. 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. 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.

組成From Old English on- (“on, upon”) + sundor (“apart, separately, privately”). The picture is “into a state of being apart.”

同家族的字

  • 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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    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.
  • 4

    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.
  • 5

    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/

  • 1

    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, […]

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