break apart

英 [breɪk əˈpɑːt]

美 [breɪk əˈpɑːrt]

分裂; 解体

TOEFL

英英释义

verb

• break up or separate
  1. The country is disunifying
  2. Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989
  Synonym:disunify
• break violently or noisily
  Synonym:crashbreak up
• take apart into its constituent pieces
  Synonym:disassembledismantletake apartbreak up

双语例句

• I'd say I saw a community break apart.
  而我会说我看到了一个和谐社区的分裂与崩溃。
• Emerging from prison, without the force of arms, he would like Abraham Lincoln hold his country together when it threatened to break apart.
  出狱后，他在没有军队的情况下与亚伯拉罕林肯一样，在国家即将分裂之际维护了国家的完整。
• The supercontinent of Pangea began to break apart in the Middle Jurassic.
  一亿五千二百万年前：泛大陆裂解分离中侏罗纪时期，泛大陆全面裂解。
• Onechlorinemolecule can break apart more than one hundred thousandozonemolecules.
  一个氯分子可以分解十万多个臭氧分子。
• Roots of trees and shrubs can pierce the surface of the path or cause it to heave and break apart.
  大树和灌木的树根能穿破道路的表面或者造成路面隆起、破裂。
• The damage went undetected during Columbia's16-day mission, but caused the spacecraft to break apart under the stress of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, killing the astronauts.
  这一损坏在“哥伦比亚”号航天飞机执行为期16天的任务时并没有被察觉到。但当航天飞机返回地球过程中，在大气层的压力下，太空舱断为两截，7名宇航员遇难。
• Nanotubes that break apart water molecules to liberate hydrogen can now do so more efficiently and could soon use the optical spectrum of sunlight.
  能将水分子分解成氢的奈米管，现在分解效率更高，而且很快就可以使用到日光的可见光部份。
• If Europe chooses to become a united states, extreme polarity will force the US to break apart into many countries.
  如果欧洲选择成为联盟国，那么极度极性将迫使美国分裂成多个国家。
• Someday it will break apart, and that will be the end of everything.
  那么总有一天，它会四分五裂，那就会是世界末日。
• Already dangerous pressure points in the Earth's upper layers are now about to break apart because of new pressure and stress from the increased energy build up.
  由于扩大增强的能量造成新的挤压与应力，先前危险的压力点，目前在地球表面层即将裂开。