切開、分配（核心動作）
最直接的「把一整體切成幾份」，含切開這個動作本身、以及切完後怎麼分。
splitting/sharing out · noun · B2
The act of splitting something into separate parts, or the way those parts are shared out.
劃分／分配
核心畫面
You can picture division as drawing a line through one whole thing so it falls into separate parts. From that single act of splitting come everything else: people splitting into sides, numbers being split up, an organization split into sections, an army split into units, sport teams sorted into levels, and even a vote where the room physically splits into groups.
可以想成在一整個東西上劃一條線，把它切成幾個分開的部分。所有其他意思都是從「切開」這個動作長出來的：人分成幾派、數字…更多收起
可以想成在一整個東西上劃一條線，把它切成幾個分開的部分。所有其他意思都是從「切開」這個動作長出來的：人分成幾派、數字被分掉、組織分成幾個區塊、軍隊分成幾個單位、球隊照實力分級，甚至投票時整個議場真的分成幾群來算人數。Four branches
把人切成對立的兩邊
同樣是「切開」，但切的是一群人：把原本一夥的人切成立場不同、互相對立的幾邊。
disagreement/split · noun · B2
A strong disagreement between people in a group that splits them into smaller sides.
分歧／不和
數學上的除
把「切開」放進算術：看一個數能被切成幾份。
division (maths) · noun · B2
In maths, working out how many times one number fits inside another.
除法
切出來的單位（部門·師·級別）
切完之後留下來的「那一塊」：一個大整體被切開後，其中一個獨立的區塊或單位。
company department · noun · B2
A part of a big company or organization that does one kind of job.
部門
原始詞典資料16 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。
divisionnoun/dɪˈvɪʒn̩/
- 1
The act or process of dividing anything.
- 2
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
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arithmeticThe process of dividing a number by another.
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arithmeticA calculation that involves this process.
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
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A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
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biologybotanymycologyA rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
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biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyAn optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- “Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he wrote Tuesday. […] In a July 2020 unveiling of a report from his “Commission on Unalienable Rights” that purported that “more rights does not necessarily mean more justice,” Pompeo fanned flames of division stoked by Trump, warning that “the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack” amid nationwide protests for racial justice and against police brutality.
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governmentA method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
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lawA concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAny of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
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A lesson; a class.
- 16
A parliamentary constituency.
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。