If one thing is separate from another, there is a barrier, space, or division between them, so that they are clearly two things.
They are now making plans to form their own separate party.
他们现在正制订计划单独组建自己的政党。
Business bank accounts were kept separate from personal ones.
银行的商业账户同个人账户是分开管理的。
separates
Separates are clothes such as skirts, trousers, and shirts which cover just the top half or the bottom half of your body.
She wears coordinated separates instead of a suit.
她穿的不是套装,而是将单件上衣和裤子搭配起来穿。
separate out
Separate out means the same as separate.
How can one ever separate out the act from the attitudes that surround it?
一个人的行为和与他这种行为有关的态度怎么能区分开来呢?
Separate out means the same as separate.
If prepared many hours ahead, the mixture may separate out.
如果提前很多小时配制,这种混合物就可能会分离。
If you separate out something from the other things it is with, you take it out.
The ability to separate out reusable elements from other waste is crucial.
能将可再次利用的成分从其他废料中分离出来至关重要。
go their separate ways
When two or more people who have been together for some time go their separate ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.
Sue was 27 when she and her husband decided to go their separate ways.
27岁时苏与丈夫决定分道扬镳。
separates , separating , separated
If you separate people or things that are together, or if they separate, they move apart.
disconnect , sever , split
Police moved in to separate the two groups.
警察介入进来,把那两群人分开。
The pans were held in both hands and swirled around to separate gold particles from the dirt.
两手握住淘洗盘不停地转动,好把金粒从泥沙中分离出来。
The front end of the car separated from the rest of the vehicle.
车的前端同车子的其他部分分开了。
If you separate people or things that have been connected, or if one separates from another, the connection between them is ended.
They want to separate teaching from research.
他们要把教学与研究分离开来。
It's very possible that we may see a movement to separate the two parts of the country.
我们很有可能见证一场将该国两个地区分裂开来的运动。
If a couple who are married or living together separate, they decide to live apart.
Her parents separated when she was very young.
在她很小的时候,父母就分居了。
An object, obstacle, distance, or period of time which separates two people, groups, or things exists between them.
the white-railed fence that separated the yard from the paddock.
把院子和围场分隔开来的白色围栏。
They had undoubtedly made progress in the six years that separated the two periods.
他们无疑在那两个时期相隔的6年间取得了进步。
If you separate one idea or fact from another, you clearly see or show the difference between them.
distinguish
It is difficult to separate legend from truth.
传说与事实很难分辨。
learning how to separate real problems from imaginary illnesses.
学习分辨哪些是真实存在的问题,哪些是无病呻吟。
A quality or factor that separates one thing from another is the reason why the two things are different from each other.
The single most important factor that separates ordinary photographs from good photographs is the lighting.
区分一般照片和好照片的唯一重要因素是光线效果。
If a particular number of points separate two teams or competitors, one of them is winning or has won by that number of points.
In the end only three points separated the two teams.
最后,两队只以3分之差分出了输赢。
If you separate a group of people or things into smaller elements, or if a group separates, it is divided into smaller elements.
The police wanted to separate them into smaller groups.
警察想把他们分成更小的组。
Let's separate into smaller groups.
让我们分成更小的组吧。