[VERB 动词]拆卸;拆开;拆除 If you dismantle a machine or structure, you carefully separate it into its different parts.
[V n]
He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.
他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
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[VERB 动词](逐渐)废除,撤销,破坏 To dismantle an organization or system means to cause it to stop functioning by gradually reducing its power or purpose.
[V n]
...opposition to the president's policy of dismantling apartheid...
反对总统废除种族隔离的政策
Public services of all kinds are being dismantled.
林林总总的公共设施正被逐渐废除。
Oxford
dis·man·tle/dɪsˈmæntl; NAmEdɪsˈmæntl/verb1dismantlesth to take apart a machine or structure so that it is in separate pieces 拆开,拆卸(机器或结构)◆I had to dismantle the engine in order to repair it.我得把发动机拆开来修理。◆The steel mill was dismantled piece by piece.钢厂已经一块块拆散了。2dismantlesth to end an organization or system gradually in an organized way (逐渐)废除,取消◆The government was in the process of dismantling the state-owned industries.政府正在着手逐步废除国有企业。▶dis·mant·ling/; NAmE/noun[uncountable ]dismantledismantlesdismantleddismantlingdis·man·tle/dɪsˈmæntl; NAmEdɪsˈmæntl/dis·mant·ling/; NAmE/
1to take a machine or piece of equipment apart so that it is in separate pieces: Chris dismantled the bike in five minutes.2to gradually get rid of a system or organization: an election promise to dismantle the existing tax legislation
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