核心畫面
Think of two things that were once joined and have now been formally cut apart — and the cut has already happened. Divorced describes the state afterwards, not the act. Two people who were one household are now two; an idea that should have grown out of real life now floats free of it.
可以想成「本來連在一起的兩邊，被正式切開了」——而且切的動作已經完成，divorced 描述的是切開之後的狀態，不是…更多收起
可以想成「本來連在一起的兩邊，被正式切開了」——而且切的動作已經完成，divorced 描述的是切開之後的狀態，不是切的那個動作。原本一個家的兩個人，現在是兩個各自的人；本來應該貼著現實長出來的想法，現在跟現實完全斷了線，各飄各的。切口這個畫面，同時撐起婚姻和比喻兩種用法。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。
divorcedadj/dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/
- 1
Cut off, or separated.
- divorced from reality
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- 2
Legally dissolved.
- It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.
- 3
Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.
- Mark's parents are divorced.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。