| 单词 | asunder |
| 释义 | asundera·sun·der /əˈsʌndə $ -ər/ adverbadv literary be torn/split/rent etc asunder literary BREAKto be torn violently apart or destroyed 被扯裂，被撕裂 a nation torn asunder by internal conflicts 一个被内讧搞得四分五裂的国家 Examples from the Corpus be torn/split/rent etc asunder• If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder.• The veils are parting, the mists are rent asunder.• This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture.• In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater. Examples from the Corpus asunder• If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder.• Let the Unionists expose themselves and rend one another asunder.• Smith and Bryant could not overcome their opponents' vivid word images of immigrant families split asunder.• In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater.• All told, the cradle of civilization has been tearing asunder for some 30 million years.• Now their raging passions looked like tearing asunder one of the strongest rigs in the North Sea. Old English onsundran, from on “into” + sundran “parts” |
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