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To take something apart piece by piece, like a machine or a piece of furniture. Used figuratively, it means to end or break down a system, plan, or organization step by step — to dismantle a company, or to dismantle an argument by showing, point by point, why it's wrong.
拆解、拆卸；(有計畫地)瓦解、廢除
組成From French "desmanteler", literally "to take the cloak (mantle) off" — the idea of stripping away a covering.
同家族的字
- mantlethe "mantle" piece originally meant "cloak" — to dismantle literally meant to take the cloak off
原始詞典資料4 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。
dismantleverb/dɪsˈmæntəl/
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To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
- This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
- 2
To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
- If we can dismantle hate rhetoric and explain why it is, in fact, illogical, is the language no longer dangerous?
- 3
To divest, strip of dress or covering.
- This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, Should in this trice of time commit a thing So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […]
- 4
To remove fittings or furnishings from.
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。