2ADV [ADVERB after verb]往不同方向;分开 If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other. 往不同方向;分开
John and Isabelle moved apart, back into the sun.
约翰和伊莎贝拉彼此分开,回到了阳光下。
He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened.
邻居过来帮忙前,他费了半天劲儿也没把两只狗分开。
3ADV [beADVERB, ADVERB after verb]分手;分离 If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time. 分手;分离
It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days.
4ADV [ADVERB after verb]成零碎;散开 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. 成零碎;散开
When the clock stopped he took it apart to find out what was wrong.
钟一不走了,他就把它拆开看看哪儿出毛病了。
Many school buildings are unsafe, and some are falling apart.
许多校舍不安全,有些简直是摇摇欲坠。
SYN to pieces, to bits, asunder [literary], into parts
5ADV [ADVERB after verb]垮掉;分裂;解体 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. 垮掉;分裂;解体
Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders.
每个经理都知道只要自己的注意力有所分散,公司就会分崩离析。
Her marriage to film producer Michael Greenburg fell apart.
她和电影制片人迈克尔·格林伯格的婚姻破裂了。
6ADV [ADVERB after verb, n ADVERB]与众不同地;独特地 If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things. 与众不同地;独特地
What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes from northern Thailand.
他信先生真正与众不同之处是他来自泰国北部。
Health spending tends to rise disproportionately as countries become richer; but even adjusting for this, America is a case apart.
7ADJ 意见不一致的;有分歧的 If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it. 意见不一致的;有分歧的
Officials say they're so far apart on such a wide range of issues there's no telling how long the talks could drag on.
官员们声称他们在许多问题上分歧甚大,所以无法预见谈判将拖多久。
Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart.
他们对于表演的理解和我们的大相径庭。
8PHRASE 区分;分辨 If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you. 区分;分辨
I can still only tell Mark and Dave apart by the colour of their shoes!
我仍然只能根据鞋子的颜色来区分马克和戴夫!
Free range and battery eggs, boiled for four minutes, were hard to tell apart.
1ADV [n ADVERB]除了…外(别无) You use apart from when you are making an exception to a general statement. 除了…外(别无)
The room was empty apart from one man seated beside the fire.
除了有个男人坐在火炉边,房间里空荡荡的。
She was the only British competitor apart from Richard Meade.
她是除了理查德·米德之外唯一的英国参赛者。
SYN except for, excepting, other than, excluding
2PREP-PHRASE [n ADVERB]除…之外(表示例外) You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement. 除…之外(表示例外)
This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
除了纽约,这是我到过的第一个人们确实住在市中心的美国城市。
SYN except for, excepting, other than, excluding
3PREP-PHRASE [n ADVERB]除…外(尚有);此外 You use apart from to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. 除…外(尚有);此外
Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job.
There was always something to look forward to, apart from Rachel's visits.
除了雷切尔的来访,总还有别的事情可以期待。
4ADV [n ADVERB]除…以外(尚有);此外 You use apart to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. 除…以外(尚有);此外
That argument apart, it is for the Germans themselves to work out how their forces should come together.