apart

1. ADV When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other. 分開(kāi)地

He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us. 他和我們其余人分開(kāi)一點(diǎn)站著看著我們。

Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other. 雷和姊妹勒妮住得彼此僅隔25英里。

2. ADV If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other. 分離地[ADV after v]

John and Isabelle moved apart, back into the sun. 約翰和伊莎貝爾彼此分開(kāi)了，回到陽(yáng)光下。

3. ADV If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time. 不在一起地

It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days. 這是我和簡(jiǎn)第一次分開(kāi)超過(guò)了幾天。

4. ADV If you take something apart, you separate it into the pieces that it is made of. If it comes or falls apart, its parts separate from each other. 散開(kāi)地[ADV after v]

When the clock stopped he took it apart, found what was wrong, and put the whole thing together again. 鐘停了之后他把它拆開(kāi)，找出了問(wèn)題，然后又全部裝好了。

5. ADV If something such as an organization or relationship falls apart, or if something tears it apart, it can no longer continue because it has serious difficulties. 破裂地[ADV after v]

Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders. 任何經(jīng)理都知道如果他的注意力分散了他的公司將會(huì)開(kāi)始分崩離析。

6. ADV If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things. 區(qū)分開(kāi)地

What really sets Mr. Thaksin apart is that he comes not from Southern China, but from northern Thailand. 真正使他信先生與眾不同的是他并非來(lái)自中國(guó)南方，而是來(lái)自泰國(guó)北方。

7. ADJ If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it. 有分歧的[v-link amount ADJ, oft ADJ 'on' n]

Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart. 他們對(duì)一場(chǎng)表演的概念和我們的概念相去甚遠(yuǎn)。

8. PHRASE If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you. 不能區(qū)分

I can still only tell Mark and Dave apart by the colour of their shoes!

我依然只能通過(guò)馬克和戴夫的鞋的顏色區(qū)分他們。

PHRASE

1. PHRASE Apart from means the same as aside from. 除…以外

2. ADV You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement. 除…以外[n ADV]

This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown. 這是除紐約以外我所呆過(guò)的居民實(shí)際住在市中心的第一座美國(guó)城市。