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Dissection Process Taking Cutting Word Means Cut 英

英语单词 dissection
英美音标 英 [daɪ'sekʃn] 美 [daɪ'sekʃn]
中文释义 n.解剖;仔细分析
英语例句 (1) According to the result of the dissection, the man died from heart attack.
(2) Her first dissection made her change her mind about becoming a doctor.
(3) A dissection of your argument shows several inconsistencies.
(4) Your enjoyment of a novel can suffer from too much analysis and dissection.
中文例句 (1) 根据解剖结果,此人死于心脏病发作。
(2) 她进行了首次解剖后就改变了要当医生的想法。
(3) 对你论点作仔细分析后发现一些前后矛盾之处。
(4) 对一部小说过多的剖析可能会影响你对它的欣赏。
vocabulary简明 Dissection is the process of separating something into pieces. Whether the dissection involves taking a poem apart line-by-line to learn its meaning or cutting open a frog to study its insides, in both cases you're pulling out the parts that make up a whole to better understand it.
vocabulary扩展 Let's dissect, or take apart, this word for a moment. Dis- means "apart" and section means "to cut", which come together to form the definition of dissection: "to cut apart." When you cut something up into sections you're doing a dissection. The word is commonly used when talking about the process of cutting something apart for scientific purposes, it's also used to talk about taking apart an argument, a poem, or a plan.

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