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apart

adverb
 
🔊/əˈpɑːt/
🔊/əˈpɑːrt/
Idioms
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  1.  
     separated by a distance, of space or time（指空间或时间）相隔，相距
    • The two houses stood 500 metres apart.两座房子相距 500 米。🔊🔊
    • Their birthdays are only three days apart.他们的生日仅隔三日。🔊🔊
    • (figurative) The two sides in the talks are still a long way apart (= are far from reaching an agreement).谈判双方的意见仍相去甚远。🔊🔊
  2.  
     not together; separate or separately不在一起；分离；分开
    • We're living apart now.我们现在不住在一起。🔊🔊
    • Over the years, Rosie and I had drifted apart.多年以来，我和罗西早已疏远。🔊🔊
    • She keeps herself apart from other people.她与其他人保持距离。🔊🔊
    • I can't tell the twins apart (= see the difference between them).我分不出这一对双胞胎中谁是谁。🔊🔊
  3.  
     into pieces成碎片
    • The whole thing just came apart in my hands.这整件东西偏偏在我手里破裂了。🔊🔊
    • When his wife died, his world fell apart.他在妻子去世后万念俱灰。🔊🔊
    • Within minutes the ship began to break apart.几分钟之内，船就开始分崩离析。
    • We had to take the engine apart.我们不得不拆卸了引擎。🔊🔊
  4. used to say that somebody/something is not included in what you are talking about（指所说的不包括在内）除外
    • Victoria apart, not one of them seems suitable for the job.除了维多利亚，看来他们谁也不适合这个工作。🔊🔊
    5. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin a parte ‘at the side’.
Idioms
be poles apart
  1. to be widely separated; to have no interests that you share天南地北；南辕北辙；截然相反
    • Her own friends were poles apart from his.她自己的朋友与他分开。
    • In temperament, she and her sister are poles apart.她和姐姐的性情截然相反。
be worlds apart
  1. to be completely different in attitudes, opinions, etc.（在态度、看法等方面）有天壤之别，截然不同
    • Although they are twins, they are worlds apart in their attitude to life.尽管他们是双胞胎，他们的人生观却完全不同。
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2
joking apart (British English)joking aside (British English, North American English)
  1. used to show that you are now being serious after you have said something funny言归正传；说正经的
rip somebody/something apart/to shreds/to bits, etc.
  1. to destroy something; to criticize somebody very strongly摧毁；毁坏；猛烈抨击
    • countries ripped apart by fighting国家因战斗而分裂
    • The dog had ripped a cushion to shreds.那只狗把一个垫子撕成碎片。
    Extra Examples
    • The hounds fell on the fox and ripped it apart.猎犬落在狐狸上，把它撕开了。
    • She'll rip you to pieces if you try to keep her cub from her.如果您试图让幼崽远离她，她会把您撕成碎片。