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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We could have hundreds of stars, like a globular cluster, and they could collide with each other, they could explode, they could break apart all those forces are internal, they don't count.
  我们有几百颗星星，如球状的星云，它们相互碰撞，它们可能爆炸分离，都是内力，可以不计。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Time passes, many things break apart and many things fade away, in memory, in life, in death.
  时光逝去，许多事物就这样破碎、就这样消散，在记忆中、在生命中、在死亡中。