Cleavage
['kliːvɪdʒ] or ['klivɪdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of cleaving or splitting.
(noun.) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts).
(noun.) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.
(noun.) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.
(noun.) the state of being split or cleft; 'there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members'.
編輯:沃伦--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
(n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
(n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The ship's prow cleaved on, with a faint noise of cleavage, into the complete night, without knowing, without seeing, only surging on. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This cleavage in public affairs is the most important choice we are called upon to make. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This incident of the short ballot illustrates the cleavage between invention and routine. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There is no obvious cleavage which everyone recognizes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But let them all be represented in one room by men who are professionally interested in their constituency's prejudices and what would you accomplish but a deepening of the cleavages? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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