位置;状态(POSITIONS AND STATES)
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。
1. (在空间上)相隔,相距
When people or things are apart, they are some distance from each other.
e.g. 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。
e.g. She saw Sheila standing some distance apart...
她看见希拉站开了一段距离。
2. 往不同方向;分开
If two people or things move apart or are pulled apart, they move away from each other.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
3. 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.
e.g. 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。
e.g. Mum and Dad live apart.
妈妈和爸爸分居。
4. 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.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
5. 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.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
6. 与众不同地;独特地
If something sets someone or something apart, it makes them different from other people or things.
e.g. 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。
e.g. Health spending tends to rise disproportionately as countries become richer; but even adjusting for this, America is a case apart.
随着国家愈加富有,医疗保健费用增加的幅度却往往与之不成比例;但即使美国为此作出调整,还是与别国不同。
7. 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.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
8. 区分;分辨
If you can't tell two people or things apart, they look exactly the same to you.
e.g. 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!
e.g. 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。
例外;注意(INDICATING EXCEPTIONS AND FOCUSING)
1. 除了…外(别无)
You use apart from when you are making an exception to a general statement.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
2. 除…之外(表示例外)
You use apart when you are making an exception to a general statement.
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e.g. 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。
3. 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.
e.g. 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...
文盲的存在影响着英国的产业效益。但是,除此以外,更重要的是那些不具备读写能力的人也不太可能找到工作。
e.g. 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。
4. 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.
e.g. 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。