divorce
n. 离婚 vt. 与...离婚
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离婚；分离
使离婚，使分离；与…离婚
离婚
释义与例句
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1.
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
离婚
可数 不可数Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
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2.
A separation of connected things.
脱离
可数 不可数The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
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The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
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That which separates.
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To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
离婚
及物A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
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To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
离婚
离异
及物Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
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To obtain a legal divorce.
不及物Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
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To separate something that was connected.
及物The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
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Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
来源：wiktionary