divide
verb OPAL WOPAL S
/dɪˈvaɪd/
/dɪˈvaɪd/
动词形式
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they divide | /dɪˈvaɪd/ /dɪˈvaɪd/ |
| he / she / it divides | /dɪˈvaɪdz/ /dɪˈvaɪdz/ |
| past simple divided | /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ |
| past participle divided | /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form dividing | /dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ/ /dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to separate into parts; to make something separate into parts
（使）分开，分散，分割，分成… - The cells began to divide rapidly.
细胞开始迅速分裂。 - divide into something The questions divide into two categories: easy and hard.
问题分为两类:容易和难。 - divide up After lunch we divided up for group discussions.
午饭后，我们分头进行小组讨论。 - divide something (into something) I divided the class into four groups.
我把班级分成四组。 - Divide the dough into four pieces.
把面团分成四份。 - The book is divided into 11 sections.
这本书分为11个部分。 - divide something up (into something) A sentence can be divided up into meaningful segments.
一个句子可以划分成有意义的若干部分。
Topics Biologyb1- Railway enthusiasts divide neatly into two groups.
铁路爱好者简单地分成两类。 - We have divided the topics into three categories.
我们把话题分成了三类。 - The study divided consumers into five groups.
这项研究将消费者分为五组。 - Films tend to divide into two categories: ‘art-house’ and ‘commercial’.
电影往往分为两类:“艺术片”和“商业片”。 - The performance is divided into six parts.
演出分为六个部分。 - The children divided into three teams.
孩子们分为 3 个队。 - The country is divided up into nine regions.
该国划分为9 个区域。 - They were randomly divided into three groups.
他们被随机分成三组。 - This report is divided broadly into two parts.
这份报告大致分为两部分。 - First, divide the class into two groups.
首先，将班级分成两组。 - The city was divided into four sectors.
这座城市被划分成四个区。 - Flimsy partitions divided up the gallery into claustrophobic rooms.
单薄的隔墙将画廊分隔成幽闭恐怖的房间。 - We decided to divide the space with screens.
我们决定用屏风来分隔空间。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- broadly
- roughly
- exactly
- …
- into
- divide in two
- The cells began to divide rapidly.
- [transitive] divide something to separate something into parts and give a share to each of a number of different people, etc.
分配；分享；分担 - They could not agree on how to divide the land.
他们无法就如何划分土地达成一致。 - divide something up Jack divided up the rest of the cash.
杰克把余下的现金分了。 - divide something (up) between somebody We divided the work between us.
我们共同分担这项工作。 - divide something (up) among somebody Profits were divided up among the staff.
利润在员工中分配。 - The money was divided equally among his sons.
这笔钱由他的儿子们平分了。
- The story is about a father who divides his property among his sons.
这个故事讲的是一个父亲给儿子们分配财产的事。 - Space is divided according to the needs of individual departments.
空间是根据个别部门的需要来划分的。 - Most of the collection was divided among the city's museums.
大部分藏品被分配给了该市的博物馆。 - They carefully divided up the cost of the vacations they took together.
他们仔细分摊了一起度假的费用。 - The exhibition features the work of 60 artists, evenly divided between well-known and less-familiar figures.
这次展览展示了60位艺术家的作品，他们平均分为知名人物和不太为人所知的人物。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- equally
- among
- between
- They could not agree on how to divide the land.
- [transitive] to use different parts of your time, energy, etc. for different activities, etc.
把（时间、精力等）分别用于 - divide something As working parents we think carefully about how we divide our time.
作为职业父母，我们会仔细考虑如何分配时间。 - divide something between A and B He divides his energies between politics and business.
他把精力一部分用在政治上，一部分用在生意上。
- They divided their time between London and Boston.
他们一部份时间在伦敦，一部份时间在波士顿。 - They divide their time between New York and their ranch in New Mexico.
他们在纽约和新墨西哥州的农场之间分配时间。 - Her mentor advised her to divide her efforts 80–20, with 80% going to research, and 20% to teaching.
她的导师建议她将努力分成80-20份，80%用于研究，20%用于教学。 - The children of immigrants may divide their loyalties between their birth country and their parents'.
移民的子女可能会在他们的出生国和父母之间划分他们的忠诚。 - He divides his year between the University of Houston and Florida State University.
他在休斯顿大学和佛罗里达州立大学分班。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- equally
- among
- between
- divide something As working parents we think carefully about how we divide our time.
- [intransitive] (of a road or river
路或河 分岔 - Where the path divides, keep right.
来到岔口就靠右行。 - divide into something The river divides into several channels.
这条河分成几条渠道。
Topics Transport by car or lorryb1- Just past the bridge by a new forestry block, the paths divide.
就在桥的另一边，一个新的森林街区，小路分开了。 - There's a signpost where the road divides.
这条路的分岔处有一个路标。 - The nearest restaurant is located opposite, just before the road divides.
最近的餐馆就在对面，就在道路分岔之前。 - He overtook at the point where the road divides into two lanes.
他在道路分成两条车道的地方超车。 - Here the river divides into about four separate streams.
这条河在这里分成大约四条独立的溪流。 - Streams divide and unite across the plain.
河流在平原上分开并汇合。
- Where the path divides, keep right.
- [transitive] divide A from B (formal) to separate two people or things
使分离；使分开 - Can it ever be right to divide a mother from her child?
让母子分离难道还有对的时候？ - The landowners were divided from the mass of poor peasants who lived in the surrounding area.
地主是从生活在周围地区的大量贫农中划分出来的。
- Can it ever be right to divide a mother from her child?
- [transitive] to be the real or imaginary line or barrier that separates two people or things
是…的分界线；分隔；把…隔开 - divide something (off) A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.
一道篱笆把庭院的西面隔开。 - divide A from B The English Channel divides England from France.
英吉利海峡把英法两国分隔开来。
- A low wall divides the patio from the rest of the garden.
一道矮墙将天井与花园的其余部分隔开。 - Britain is divided from the rest of Europe by the English Channel.
英吉利海峡把英国和欧洲其他地区分开了。 - the mountains which divide Europe from Asia
把欧洲和亚洲分开的山脉
- divide something (off) A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.
- [transitive, intransitive] to find out how many times one number is contained in another
除以 - divide something by something 30 divided by 6 is 5 (= 30 ÷ 6 = 5).
30 除以 6 等于 5。 - divide by something It's easy to divide by ten.
很容易被十除。 - The children are learning how to multiply and divide.
孩子们正在学习如何乘法和除法。
- divide something by something 30 divided by 6 is 5 (= 30 ÷ 6 = 5).
- [intransitive, transitive] divide (something) into something to be able to be multiplied to give another number
除 - 5 divides into 30 6 times.
5 除 30 等于 6。
- 5 divides into 30 6 times.
- [transitive] to make people disagree
使产生分歧；使意见不一 - divide somebody/something to divide the nation/country
分裂国家 - This issue has bitterly divided the community.
这个问题造成社会严重分化。 - The building divides opinion (= some people like it and some do not).
这座建筑众说纷纭。 - be divided on/over something The party is deeply divided on this question.
该党在这个问题上分歧很大。 - to be evenly/sharply divided over the issue
在这个问题上意见不一/严重分歧
Topics Opinion and argumentb2- The issue has divided the government.
这个问题在政府中引起了意见分歧。 - The presidential elections divided the nation.
总统选举分裂了这个国家。 - a country divided by war
因战争而分裂的国家 - The case divided the New York art world at the time.
该案件在当时分裂了纽约艺术界。 - a society that was divided along sectarian lines
一个按宗派划分的社会 - an issue that threatens to divide society
威胁到社会分裂的问题 - I will not allow this to divide our family.
我不会让这件事拆散我们的家庭。 - Scholarly opinion is evenly divided on whether the portrait is of a Hellenistic prince or a Roman general.
学者们对这幅肖像是希腊王子还是罗马将军的看法不一。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- bitterly
- deeply
- seriously
- …
- be divided about something
- be divided on something
- be divided over something
- …
- divide somebody/something to divide the nation/country
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) (of two or more people
二人或以上 分配；分享；分担 - Communities frequently divided along racial lines.
社区经常按照种族划分。
- Communities frequently divided along racial lines.
separate分开
mathematics数学
disagreement分歧
词源Middle English (as a verb): from Latin dividere ‘force apart, remove’. The noun dates from the mid 17th cent.
Idioms
divide and rule
- to keep control over people by making them disagree with and fight each other, therefore not giving them the chance to join together and oppose you
分而治之 - a policy of divide and rule
分而治之的政策
- a policy of divide and rule
split/divide (something) down the middle
- to divide something into two equal parts; to divide into two equal parts
平分；分为相等的两半 - The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not).
国内支持和反对罢工的人势均力敌。 - Divide the cake down the middle.
把蛋糕分成两半。 - It would seem the community has divided down the middle, with some favouring expansion and some dead set against it.
这个社区似乎已经分裂成了两派，一派支持扩张，一派坚决反对扩张。
- The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not).