Divide

(noun.) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility).

(verb.) perform a division; 'Can you divide 49 by seven?'.

(verb.) separate into parts or portions; 'divide the cake into three equal parts'; 'The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I'.

校对:鲁珀特

• He does not divide his act into eating and food. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I cannot reveal it, or divide it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• We have happily been brought together, thanks to our good kinsman, and it can't divide us now! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• To divide it was to ruin it, and to expose every part of it to be oppressed and swallowed up by the incursions of its neighbours. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Now divide the string into two equal parts by inserting the bridge midway between the two ends; and pluck either half as before. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• With these forces my idea would have been to divide them, sending one half to Mobile and the other half to Savannah. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Externally they were weak and divided. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• There is a high rocky mound, called El Penon, on the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Here we made laws for ourselves, dividing our day, and fixing distinct occupations for each hour. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was four stories high, with a fire-wall dividing it into two equal parts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What would alone have set a division between that man and us, if there had been no other dividing circumstance, was his triumph in my story. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They were in a book, and it happened to be in the next room--our sitting-room, dividing Ada's chamber from mine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The sexagesimal method of dividing the circle and its parts was, as we have seen in the fir st chapter, of Babylonian origin. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• To which riddle the Jacobin reply was to set about dividing up. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When a ball meets more than one ball, it divides its motion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He has one assistant who divides the watch with him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The blunt end of a flat piece of steel is placed in this nick and a smart blow of a hammer divides the crystal evenly and perfectly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I was admitted within that sacred boundary which divides the intellectual and moral nature of man from that which characterizes animals. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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