核心畫面
Drawing a line through one whole so it falls into separate parts. From that single cut grow many things: keeping two areas apart, sharing pieces out, splitting a number in maths, splitting people into opposing camps, and (as a noun) the gap the line leaves behind.
可以把 divide 的核心想成『在一個整體上劃一刀，讓它斷成幾塊』。從這一刀長出很多意思：用一條線把兩邊隔開、把切…更多收起
可以把 divide 的核心想成『在一個整體上劃一刀，讓它斷成幾塊』。從這一刀長出很多意思：用一條線把兩邊隔開、把切下的塊分給大家、在數學裡把一個數切成幾份、把人切成對立的陣營，還有當名詞時那條線留下的『鴻溝』。原始詞典資料18 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。
divideverb/dɪˈvaɪd/
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To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns
- Divide the living child in two.
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To separate into two or more parts.
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To share (something) by dividing it.
- How shall we divide this pie?
- true justice unto people to divide
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To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- Words divide us; Wiktionary unites us.
- For nearly two years, the pandemic has been dividing families over issues like social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccines. Now that the holiday season is here and families are gathering, many issues that have been simmering are reaching a boiling point.
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arithmeticTo calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the dividend).
- If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
- I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations.
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arithmeticTo be a divisor of.
- 3 divides 6.
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biologycytologymedicineTo reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis.
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
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To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
- Every family became now divided within itself.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteTo break friendship; to fall out.
- love cools, friendship / falls off, brothers divide.
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obsoleteTo have a share; to partake.
- Make good this ostentation, and you shall / Divide in all with us.
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To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the nays.
- The debates were conducted with decent freedom; and the emperors themselves, who gloried in the name of senators, sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
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To split (something) into regular steps or intervals; to mark with degrees; to graduate.
- to divide a sextant
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entertainmentlifestylemusicTo play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- About the bed sweet musicke did divide
dividenoun/dɪˈvaɪd/
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A thing that divides.
- Stay on your side of the divide, please.
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An act of dividing.
- The divide left most of the good land on my share of the property.
- The extended instruction set may double the speed again if a lot of multiplies and divides are done.
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A distancing between two people or things.
- There is a great divide between us.
- Republicans and Democrats interpret individualism differently, and those divides are more pronounced than ever in our deeply polarized political climate.
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geographynatural-sciencesA large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- If you're heading to the coast, you'll have to cross the divide first.
- The team crossed streams and jumped across deep, narrow divides in the glacier.
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geographyhydrologynatural-sciencesThe topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
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。