di·vide
verb OPAL WOPAL S
/dɪˈvaɪd/
/dɪˈvaɪd/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they divide | /dɪˈvaɪd/ /dɪˈvaɪd/ |
| he / she / it divides | /dɪˈvaɪdz/ /dɪˈvaɪdz/ |
| past simple divided | /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ |
| past participle divided | /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ /dɪˈvaɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form dividing | /dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ/ /dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to separate into parts; to make something separate into parts
（使）分开，分散，分割，分成 - The cells began to divide rapidly.
细胞开始迅速分裂。 - divide into something The questions divide into two categories: easy and hard.
问题分为两类：容易的和难的。 - divide up After lunch we divided up for group discussions.
午饭后我们分头进行小组讨论。 - divide something (into something) I divided the class into four groups.
我把全班分成四个组。 - Divide the dough into four pieces.
将面团分成四块。 - The book is divided into 11 sections.
本书分为11部分。 - divide something up (into something) A sentence can be divided up into meaningful segments.
一个句子可以划分成有意义的若干部分。
Extra ExamplesTopics Biologyb1- Railway enthusiasts divide neatly into two groups.
铁路爱好者简单地分成两类。 - We have divided the topics into three categories.
我们将主题分为三类。 - The study divided consumers into five groups.
该研究将消费者分为五组。 - Films tend to divide into two categories: ‘art-house’ and ‘commercial’.
电影通常分为两类：“艺术电影”和“商业电影”。 - The performance is divided into six parts.
演出分为六个部分。 - The children divided into three teams.
孩子们分为 3 个队。 - The country is divided up into nine regions.
该国划分为9 个区域。 - They were randomly divided into three groups.
他们被随机分成三组。 - This report is divided broadly into two parts.
这份报告大致分为两部分。 - First, divide the class into two groups.
首先，将全班分成两组。 - The city was divided into four sectors.
这座城市被划分成四个区。 - Flimsy partitions divided up the gallery into claustrophobic rooms.
脆弱的隔断将画廊分成幽闭恐怖的房间。 - We decided to divide the space with screens.
我们决定用屏风来划分空间。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- broadly
- roughly
- exactly
- …
- into
- divide in two
- The cells began to divide rapidly.
- [transitive] divide something to separate something into parts and give a share to each of a number of different people, etc.
分配；分享；分担 - They could not agree on how to divide the land.
他们无法就如何分割土地达成一致。 - divide something up Jack divided up the rest of the cash.
杰克把余下的现金分了。 - divide something (up) between somebody We divided the work between us.
我们共同分担这项工作。 - divide something (up) among somebody Profits were divided up among the staff.
利润在员工之间分配。 - The money was divided equally among his sons.
这笔钱由他的儿子们平分了。
Extra Examples- The story is about a father who divides his property among his sons.
这个故事讲的是一个父亲给儿子们分配财产的事。 - Space is divided according to the needs of individual departments.
空间根据各个部门的需要进行划分。 - Most of the collection was divided among the city's museums.
大部分藏品均分配给该市的博物馆。 - They carefully divided up the cost of the vacations they took together.
他们仔细地分摊了一起度假的费用。 - The exhibition features the work of 60 artists, evenly divided between well-known and less-familiar figures.
展览展出了 60 名艺术家的作品，其中既有知名艺术家，也有不太熟悉的艺术家。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- equally
- among
- between
- They could not agree on how to divide the land.
- [transitive] to use different parts of your time, energy, etc. for different activities, etc.
把（时间、精力等）分别用于 - divide something As working parents we think carefully about how we divide our time.
作为职业父母，我们会仔细考虑如何分配时间。 - divide something between A and B He divides his energies between politics and business.
他把精力一部分用在政治上，一部分用在生意上。
Extra Examples- They divided their time between London and Boston.
他们一部份时间在伦敦，一部份时间在波士顿。 - They divide their time between New York and their ranch in New Mexico.
他们将时间分配在纽约和新墨西哥州的牧场之间。 - Her mentor advised her to divide her efforts 80–20, with 80% going to research, and 20% to teaching.
她的导师建议她将自己的精力分成 80-20 部分，其中 80% 用于研究，20% 用于教学。 - The children of divorced parents may divide their loyalties between them.
离婚父母的孩子可能会分割他们的忠诚度。 - He divides his year between the University of Houston and Florida State University.
他在休斯顿大学和佛罗里达州立大学学习。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- equally
- among
- between
- divide something As working parents we think carefully about how we divide our time.
- [intransitive] (of a road or river) to separate into two or more parts that lead in different directions
分岔 - Where the path divides, keep right.
来到岔口就靠右行。 - divide into something The river divides into several channels.
这条河分成几条河道。
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryb1- Just past the bridge by a new forestry block, the paths divide.
过了桥，经过一个新的林业街区，小路就分开了。 - There's a signpost where the road divides.
路的分岔处有一个路标。 - The nearest restaurant is located opposite, just before the road divides.
最近的餐厅位于对面，就在道路分叉处。 - He overtook at the point where the road divides into two lanes.
他在道路分成两条车道的地方超车。 - Here the river divides into about four separate streams.
在这里，河流分成大约四个独立的溪流。 - Streams divide and unite across the plain.
溪流在平原上分流又汇合。
- Where the path divides, keep right.
- [transitive] divide A from B (formal) to separate two people or things
使分离；使分开 - Can it ever be right to divide a mother from her child?
让母子分离难道还有对的时候？ - The landowners were divided from the mass of poor peasants who lived in the surrounding area.
地主与居住在周边地区的广大贫农分开。
- Can it ever be right to divide a mother from her child?
- [transitive] to be the real or imaginary line or barrier that separates two people or things
是…的分界线；分隔；把…隔开 - divide something (off) A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.
一道篱笆把庭院的西面隔开。 - divide A from B The English Channel divides England from France.
英吉利海峡把英法两国分隔开来。
Extra Examples- A low wall divides the patio from the rest of the garden.
一堵矮墙将庭院与花园的其他部分隔开。 - Britain is divided from the rest of Europe by the English Channel.
英国被英吉利海峡与欧洲其他国家分开。 - the mountains which divide Europe from Asia
将欧洲与亚洲分开的山脉
- divide something (off) A fence divides off the western side of the grounds.
- [transitive, intransitive] to find out how many times one number is contained in another
除以 - divide something by something 30 divided by 6 is 5 (= 30 ÷ 6 = 5).
30 除以 6 等于 5。 - divide by something It's easy to divide by ten.
除以十很容易。 - The children are learning how to multiply and divide.
孩子们正在学习如何乘法和除法。
- divide something by something 30 divided by 6 is 5 (= 30 ÷ 6 = 5).
- [intransitive, transitive] divide (something) into something to be able to be multiplied to give another number
除 - 5 divides into 30 6 times.
5 除 30 等于 6。
- 5 divides into 30 6 times.
- [transitive] to make people disagree
使产生分歧；使意见不一 - divide somebody/something to divide the nation/country
分裂国家 - This issue has bitterly divided the community.
这个问题造成社会严重分化。 - The building divides opinion (= some people like it and some do not).
对这栋楼的看法存在分歧。 - be divided on/over something The party is deeply divided on this question.
该党在这个问题上意见严重分歧。 - to be evenly/sharply divided over the issue
在这个问题上意见分歧
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentb2- The issue has divided the government.
这个问题引起了政府的分歧。 - The presidential elections divided the nation.
总统选举使国家分裂。 - a country divided by war
因战争而分裂的国家 - The case divided the New York art world at the time.
此案在当时的纽约艺术界引起了分歧。 - a society that was divided along sectarian lines
一个按宗派划分的社会 - an issue that threatens to divide society
一个威胁社会分裂的问题 - I will not allow this to divide our family.
我不会允许这件事分裂我们的家庭。 - Scholarly opinion is evenly divided on whether the portrait is of a Hellenistic prince or a Roman general.
对于这幅肖像是希腊化王子还是罗马将军，学术界意见不一。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- bitterly
- deeply
- seriously
- …
- be divided about something
- be divided on something
- be divided over something
- …
- divide somebody/something to divide the nation/country
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) (of two or more people) to disagree
持不同意见；有分歧 - Communities frequently divided along religious lines.
社区经常因宗教信仰而分裂。
- Communities frequently divided along religious lines.
separate
mathematics
disagreement
Word OriginMiddle English (as a verb): from Latin dividere ‘force apart, remove’. The noun dates from the mid 17th cent.
Idioms
divide and rule
- to keep control over people by making them disagree with and fight each other, therefore not giving them the chance to join together and oppose you
分而治之 - a policy of divide and rule
分而治之的政策
- a policy of divide and rule
split/divide (something) down the middle
- to divide something into two equal parts; to divide into two equal parts
平分；分成相等的两半 - The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not).
国内支持和反对罢工的人势均力敌。 - Divide the cake down the middle.
将蛋糕从中间分开。 - It would seem the community has divided down the middle, with some favouring expansion and some dead set against it.
社区似乎分成了两派，一些人支持扩张，一些人坚决反对。
- The country was split down the middle over the strike (= half supported it, half did not).