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Disconnect Separate Verb 动词 Pay Means Connection   [V

英语单词 disconnect
英美音标 英 [ˌdɪskə'nekt] 美 [ˌdɪskə'nekt]
中文释义 v.使分离;断开;拆开
英语例句 (1) Objectifying the body can disconnect us from that sense of aliveness.
(2) If you don't pay your bills they'll disconnect your electricity/gas.
(3) Disconnect it with a chain tong.
中文例句 (1) 将身体客观化能使我们从那种存在实体感中抽离出来。
(2) 若不付费用,他们就会停止供应电力/煤气。
(3) 用链钳卸开。
vocabulary简明 When you disconnect something, you detach or separate it from something else. If you work plowing driveways during the winter, you need to disconnect the plow from your truck in the spring.
vocabulary扩展 You can disconnect toy train cars, and you can also disconnect your laptop from its charger. In fact, unplugging electrical appliances is another way to disconnect something. Disconnect also means a lack of understanding or connection. So there might be a disconnect between you and your brother, or between what a politician promises to do and what she actually does. Disconnect combines dis-, "the opposite of" with connect, from the Latin conectere, "join together."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]切断;断开 To disconnect a piece of equipment means to separate it from its source of power or to break a connection that it needs in order to work.
  [V n]
  [be V-ed]
  • The device automatically disconnects the ignition when the engine is switched off...

    当引擎关掉时,这个装置会自动切断点火开关。

  • Vicky Brown arrived home to find the men disconnecting her microwave...

    维基·布朗到家时发现那些人正在断开她微波炉的开关。

  • She ran back to the phone. The line was disconnected.

    她跑回去接电话。但电话已挂了。

2
[VERB 动词](通常指因欠费而)切断(煤气、水、电或者电话) If you are disconnected by a gas, electricity, water, or telephone company, they turn off the connection to your house, usually because you have not paid the bill.
  [be V-ed]
  [usu passive]
  • You will be given three months to pay before you are disconnected.

    在被切断供应之前你有三个月的时间来付款。

3
[VERB 动词]使分离;使分开 If you disconnect something from something else, you separate the two things.
  [V n from n]
  • He disconnected the IV bottle from the overhead hook.

    他把静脉滴注瓶从头顶的钩子上拿下来。

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