单词 | take somebody/something apart |
释义 | take somebody/something aparttake somebody/something apart phrasal verbphr v a) to separate something into all its different parts 拆开,拆卸 OPP put together Tom was always taking things apart in the garage. 汤姆老是在车库里拆东西。 b) to search a place very thoroughly 彻底搜查 The police took the house apart looking for clues. 警察彻底搜查了那所房子,寻找线索。 c) to beat someone very easily in a game, sport, fight etc 〔在比赛、打斗等中〕轻易打败〔某人〕 d) to show that someone is wrong or something is not true 证明…错误[失实] Tariq takes several gay myths apart in his book. 塔里克在他的书中指出了人们对同性恋的一些错误看法。 Examples from the Corpus take apart• I've assembled his biography brick by brick, just so I can have the pleasure of taking it apart.• We stopped singing and took a step apart.• You build these wee engines and take them apart.• Because I had to take it apart afterwards and put all the pieces back where they were.• One evening, some weeks later, l took the cube apart and could not get it back together again.• The police took his house apart looking for possible clues after she vanished from a leisure centre car park.• Room by room she was taking it apart, scrubbing and polishing it back into a real nice place.• So he bought a mask and took it apart to figure out how it was made. → take somebody/something apart at take1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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