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

• 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。
• 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。
• We destroyed their youth, once thought to be too strong to break apart the city.
  我们摧毁了各自的青春，瓦解了曾经认为牢不可破的城池。
• 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。
• When the cholesterol plaques can break apart or rupture, it causes blood clots and blocks the blood vessel.
  当胆固醇斑块破碎，就引起血栓或阻塞血管；
• Scientists aren't sure, but they do know that it interferes with the enzymes that break apart the chemical bonds in starches and the kinds of sugars found in table sugar and milk.
  科学家不能肯定，但他们的确知道，醋酸干扰使淀粉和在蔗糖和牛奶中发现的一些种类的糖的化学键断裂的一些酶。
• I do understand how you feel. I also understand, however, that a marriage can only break apart from the inside.
  我非常理解你的感受，但我也同时认为一段婚姻只能从内部开始破裂。
• 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。
• 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。
• The third important ingredient is a neutron "moderator," a substance that can slow the neutrons given off when a uranium nucleus splits so that they are more apt to induce other uranium nuclei to break apart.
  第三个要素是中子「冲剂」中子缓冲剂能使铀原子核分裂时所释放出的中子减速，而更容易促使其他的铀原子核分裂。