喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture segregate: a flock, and someone leading part of it into a separate pen. Nothing is destroyed and nobody is sent away — the group is simply split, and the parts are kept from mixing again. That is why the word is never about one thing going missing; it is always about two sides that are now held apart, and about somebody or some rule doing the holding.

「segregate」的畫面可以想成一群羊，還有一個人把其中一部分趕進另一個圈裡。沒有誰被消滅，也沒有誰被送走。那一…更多收起「segregate」的畫面可以想成一群羊，還有一個人把其中一部分趕進另一個圈裡。沒有誰被消滅，也沒有誰被送走。那一群只是被切開了，而且被擋著不讓再混在一起。所以這個字不是在講「少了什麼」。它永遠是在講兩邊被分開放著，而且是有人、有規定在維持這個分開。

From the word’s history

The source entry gives Latin sēgregātus, from sēgregō 'to separate', made of sē- 'apart' and gregō, from grex 'flock'. The flock in the word is why the modern uses are all about a group being split rather than a thing being removed. Compare gregarious and aggregate, which share the same grex.

封包裡的詞源記載：來自拉丁文 sēgregātus，源自 sēgregō「分開」，由 sē-（分開）加 gregō（成群）組成，gregō 又來自 grex「羊群」。字裡本來就有一個「群」，這正好解釋了今天的用法為什麼總是在講一個群體被切開，而不是某樣東西不見了。gregarious、aggregate 也共用這個 grex。

Wiktionary entry for segregate, kaikki extract supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:662972618:16485)

Two branches

把人分開（制度上的隔離）

核心畫面裡被趕開的那一群換成了人，而且動手的是法律或制度。

verb · B2

To keep one group of people apart from another group, especially because they are of a different race, sex, or religion, so that each group uses different schools, buildings, seats, or areas.

隔離、把人群分開

把空間和東西分開放

同一個動作，被帶開的換成一塊區域或一批東西。因為原本就是規章語氣，所以這一族多半出現在告示、安全須知和作業規定上。

verb · B2

To keep one part of a place or thing apart from another part, so that the two do not mix or touch.

分隔、區隔（空間或東西）

原始詞典資料7 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。

segregateadj/ˈsɛɡɹəɡət/

  • 1

    Separate; select.

  • 2

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesSeparated from others of the same kind.

  • 3

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesSeparate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

segregateverb/ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/

  • 1

    To separate.

    • One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.
    • Throw me in cuffs, no chance of parole / Back in the house, thirty days in the hole / Segregate me from the local population, your love is, uh, incarceration
  • 2

    In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.

    • Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.
  • 3

    governmentpoliticsTo separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.

    • Although the California State Supreme Court ended the official segregation of public schools in 1877, Sacramento continued to segregate well into the 1880s (Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society [SAAHCS] 1990:9, 20).
    • Although some lunch counters continued to segregate well into 1965, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter relented on July 25, 1960.26 Unwilling for the slow process of litigation in federal courts to work its way through[…]

segregatenoun

  • 1

    An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

    • A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.
    • […] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.

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。