detach

Word family noun attachment detachment detachabilitydetachednessadjective attached ≠ unattached ≠ detached detachable detachedverb attach ≠ detach adverbdetachedly

de·tach /dɪˈtætʃ/ verb

1 REMOVE[intransitiveI, transitiveT] if you detach something, or if it detaches, it becomes separated from the thing it was attached to 拆下，分开，拆开，卸下 OPP attach

detach something from something

You can detach the hood from the jacket.

你可以把风帽从夹克上拆下来。

Please detach and fill out the application form.

请撕下申请表并填好。

2 detach yourself from somebody/something SEPARATEto try to be less involved in or less concerned about a situation 使自己摆脱某人/某事物

Doctors have to detach themselves from their feelings.

医生必须抛开个人的感情。

Examples from the Corpus

detach yourself from somebody/something• In order to do her job during the war, she detached herself from her feelings.• My muscles went limp; my skin melted into a buttery ooze; my head detached itself from my body.• Alex detached himself from the crowd and came towards them.• When thoroughly replenished it would detach itself from the socket and renew its adventures across the floor!• If you wished to detach yourself from the soul of Salomon Brothers, London was the only place to go.• Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis.• It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth.• One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger.

Examples from the Corpus

detach• She fiddled around for a while, and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached.• The tires on the toy cars may detach and become a hazard to small children.• The control unit can be detached from the base.• Death, with which they lived so intimately, could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation.• Health care needs to be detached from them and funded from general taxes.• Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.• Eventually, if the body lay undisturbed for long enough, the skin might even detach itself from the body.• Please detach the last section of this form, fill it in, and return it to us.• Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes.

detach something from something• Workers detached the power lines from the old, rotting poles.

Origin detach

(1600-1700) French détacher, from Old French destachier, from atachier “to attach”

单词	detach
释义	detach Word family noun attachment detachment detachabilitydetachednessadjective attached ≠ unattached ≠ detached detachable detachedverb attach ≠ detach adverbdetachedly de·tach /dɪˈtætʃ/ ●○○ verb 1 REMOVE[intransitiveI, transitiveT] if you detach something, or if it detaches, it becomes separated from the thing it was attached to 拆下，分开，拆开，卸下 OPP attach detach something from something You can detach the hood from the jacket. 你可以把风帽从夹克上拆下来。 Please detach and fill out the application form. 请撕下申请表并填好。 2 detach yourself from somebody/something SEPARATEto try to be less involved in or less concerned about a situation 使自己摆脱某人/某事物 Doctors have to detach themselves from their feelings. 医生必须抛开个人的感情。 Examples from the Corpus detach yourself from somebody/something• In order to do her job during the war, she detached herself from her feelings.• My muscles went limp; my skin melted into a buttery ooze; my head detached itself from my body.• Alex detached himself from the crowd and came towards them.• When thoroughly replenished it would detach itself from the socket and renew its adventures across the floor!• If you wished to detach yourself from the soul of Salomon Brothers, London was the only place to go.• Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis.• It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth.• One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger. Examples from the Corpus detach• She fiddled around for a while, and cursed and muttered before she managed to get one detached.• The tires on the toy cars may detach and become a hazard to small children.• The control unit can be detached from the base.• Death, with which they lived so intimately, could not be detached from their lives as an object of contemplation.• Health care needs to be detached from them and funded from general taxes.• Men, women and babies are detached in small groups or bunched together in fantastic clusters, gesticulating madly.• Eventually, if the body lay undisturbed for long enough, the skin might even detach itself from the body.• Please detach the last section of this form, fill it in, and return it to us.• Now fill in the application form on pages 3 and 4 and detach these Notes. detach something from something• Workers detached the power lines from the old, rotting poles. Origin detach (1600-1700) French détacher, from Old French destachier, from atachier “to attach”
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