In addition to the uses shown below, apart is used in phrasal verbs such as ‘grow apart’ and ‘take apart’.
除下列用法外,apart还可用于grow apart, take apart等短语动词中。
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[ADV 副词](在空间上)相隔,相距 When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other.
[ADV after v]
He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us...
他站在离我们其余人不远的地方,看着我们。
She saw Sheila standing some distance apart...
她看见希拉站开了一段距离。
Ray and sister Renee lived just 25 miles apart from each other.
雷和妹妹勒妮的住处仅相隔25英里。
...regions that were too far apart to have any way of knowing about each other...
相隔太远而无法互相了解的地区
He was standing, feet apart.
他叉腿站着。
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[ADV 副词]往不同方向;分开 If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other.
[ADV after v]
John and Isabelle moved apart, back into the sun...
约翰和伊莎贝拉彼此分开,回到了阳光下。
He tried in vain to keep the two dogs apart before the neighbour intervened.
邻居过来帮忙前,他费了半天劲儿也没把两只狗分开。
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[ADV 副词]分手;分离 If two people are apart, they are no longer living together or spending time together, either permanently or just for a short time.
[be ADV]
It was the first time Jane and I had been apart for more than a few days...
那是我第一次和简分开数日。
Mum and Dad live apart.
妈妈和爸爸分居。
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[ADV 副词]成零碎;散开 If you take something apart, you separate it into the pieces that it is made of. If it comes or falls apart, its parts separate from each other.
[ADV after v]
When the clock stopped he took it apart to find out what was wrong...
钟一不走了,他就把它拆开看看哪儿出毛病了。
Many school buildings are unsafe, and some are falling apart.
许多校舍不安全,有些简直是摇摇欲坠。
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[ADV 副词]垮掉;分裂;解体 If something such as an organization or relationship falls apart, or if something tears it apart, it can no longer continue because it has serious difficulties.
[ADV after v]
Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders...
每个经理都知道只要自己的注意力有所分散,公司就会分崩离析。
Her marriage to film producer Michael Greenburg fell apart.
她和电影制片人迈克尔·格林伯格的婚姻破裂了。
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[ADV 副词]与众不同地;独特地 If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things.
[ADV after v]
What really sets Mr Thaksin apart is that he comes from northern Thailand...
他信先生真正与众不同之处是他来自泰国北部。
Health spending tends to rise disproportionately as countries become richer; but even adjusting for this, America is a case apart.
[ADJ 形容词]意见不一致的;有分歧的 If people or groups are a long way apart on a particular topic or issue, they have completely different views and disagree about it.
[v-link amount ADJ]
Officials say they're so far apart on such a wide range of issues there's no telling how long the talks could drag on...
官员们声称他们在许多问题上分歧甚大,所以无法预见谈判将拖多久。
Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart.
他们对于表演的理解和我们的大相径庭。
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[PHRASE 短语]区分;分辨 If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you.
[V inflects]
I can still only tell Mark and Dave apart by the colour of their shoes!
我仍然只能根据鞋子的颜色来区分马克和戴夫!
Free range and battery eggs, boiled for four minutes, were hard to tell apart.
柴鸡蛋和笼养鸡蛋在煮过4分钟之后很难区分。
Part-2
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[ADV 副词]除了…外(别无) You use apart from when you are making an exception to a general statement.
[n ADV]
The room was empty apart from one man seated beside the fire...
除了有个男人坐在火炉边,房间里空荡荡的。
She was the only British competitor apart from Richard Meade.
她是除了理查德·米德之外唯一的英国参赛者。
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[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]除…之外(表示例外) You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement.
This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
除了纽约,这是我到过的第一个人们确实住在市中心的美国城市。
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[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]除…外(尚有);此外 You use apart from to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect.
Illiteracy threatens Britain's industrial performance. But, quite apart from that, the individual who can't read or write is unlikely to get a job...
There was always something to look forward to, apart from Rachel's visits.
除了雷切尔的来访,总还有别的事情可以期待。
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[ADV 副词]除…以外(尚有);此外 You use apart to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect.
[n ADV]
That argument apart, it is for the Germans themselves to work out how their forces should come together.
撇开那场纷争不谈,德国人自己也应该考虑一下如何将各种力量拧成一股绳。
Oxford
apart★/əˈpɑːt; NAmEəˈpɑːrt/adverb1★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 tellthe 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 apartin my hands. 这整件东西偏偏在我手里破裂了。◆We had to takethe engine apart.我们不得不拆卸了引擎。◆When his wife died, his world fell apart.他在妻子去世后万念俱灰。4used to say that sb/sth 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。IDIOMsee
1not close/touching if things are apart, they are not close to each other or touching each othertwo miles/six feet etc apart Place the two posts 6 metres apart. They have offices in countries as far apart as India and Peru. The police try to keep rival supporters apart at all matches. A couple of men started fighting and we had to pull them apart. Joel stood apart from the group, frowning.2in different pieces if something comes apart, or you take it apart, it is separated into different pieces: The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it. They took the engine apart to see what was wrong.3separate if you keep things apart, you keep them separate from each other: I try to keep my work and private life as far apart as possible.4not at same time if things are a particular time apart, they do not happen at the same time but have that much time between themtwo days/three weeks/five years etc apart Our birthdays are exactly a month apart.5people if people are apart, they are not together in the same place, or not having a relationship with each other: The children have never been apart before. My wife and I are living apart at the moment.apart from He’s never been apart from his mother.6fall aparta)if something falls apart, it breaks into different pieces: It just fell apart in my hands!b)if something is falling apart, it is in very bad condition: He drives around in an old car that’s falling apart.c)if something falls apart, it fails completely: He lost his job and his marriage fell apart. The country’s economy is in danger of falling apart.7be torn apart if a marriage, family etc is torn apart, it can no longer continue because of serious difficulties: The play portrays a good marriage torn apart by external forces.8be worlds/poles apart if people, beliefs, or ideas are worlds or poles apart, they are completely different from each other: I realized we were still worlds apart.9grow/drift apart if people drift or grow apart, their relationship slowly becomes less close: Lewis and his father drifted apart after he moved to New York.10joking apart used to say that you want to say something seriously: Joking apart, they did do quite a good job for us.11somebody/something apart except for someone or something: The car industry apart, most industries are now seeing an improvement in their economic performance.12set somebody/something apart to make someone or something different from other people or things: Her unusual lifestyle set her apart as a child.
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