1. 1分居

    If two partners are separated, they are not living together any more as a couple. They may still be married; separated is not the same as divorced. People use it on official forms (single, married, separated, divorced) and in careful talk about family life. It can be a planned legal step, or a quieter fact: they have different homes now. Say it kindly — it is a living situation, not a score. Though actually, English also uses separated in a plainer way (“the teacher separated the two groups”), but this entry is the relationship meaning.

    separated 在這裡指感情關係中的分居。常見的說法是 be separated 的形式,兩位伴侶不再以夫妻或情侶的身分同住,但不一定離婚,法律上可能還是已婚。這個字常出現在表格上,跟單身、已婚、離婚排在一起。它可能是有計畫的法律步驟,也可能只是實際上各自住在不同地方的狀態。

    說的時候要體貼,因為這是一種生活狀態,不是什麼評分。要注意,同一個字也可以指把東西分開,像老師把兩組分開,但那是另一種用法,這裡說的是感情。

組成The -ed form of separate, used as an adjective for a couple who live apart.

同家族的字

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

separatedadj/ˈsɛpəɹeɪtɪd/

  • 1

    Detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.

  • 2

    Estranged; living apart but not divorced.

    • my parents are separated

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。