喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture two things that are no longer joined or touching — there is a gap, a line, a space between them. From that one picture, 'separate' works as both a state (standing apart, on its own) and an action (putting a gap between things, or being the gap yourself).

可以想成兩個東西之間出現了一道縫、一條線、一段空隙——它們不再黏在一起、不再相連。整個 separate 都從這個畫…更多收起可以想成兩個東西之間出現了一道縫、一條線、一段空隙——它們不再黏在一起、不再相連。整個 separate 都從這個畫面長出來：當形容詞時，它描述「已經分開、各自獨立」的狀態；當動詞時，它是「製造這道縫」或「自己就站在這道縫上」的動作。

原始詞典資料9 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。

separateverb/ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/

  • 1

    To divide (a thing) into separate parts.

    • Separate the articles from the headings.
    • Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
  • 2

    To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.

    • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
    • From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy].
  • 3

    To cause (things or people) to be separate.

    • If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
    • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
  • 4

    To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.

    • The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
  • 5

    obsoleteTo set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

    • Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

separateadj詞源 1/ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/

  • 1

    Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).

    • This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
    • Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.
  • 2

    Not together (with); not united (to).

    • I try to keep my personal life separate from work.

separatenoun詞源 2/ˈsɛp.əˌɹeɪt/

  • 1

    Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.

    • French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.
  • 2

    bibliographycomputingengineeringA printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.

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。