split

英 [splɪt] 美 [splɪt]

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解释

vt. 分离；使分离；劈开；离开；分解
vi. 离开；被劈开；断绝关系
n. 劈开；裂缝
adj. 劈开的

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中文词源

split 分裂，分开，分摊

来自 Proto-Germanic*spleit,分开，来自 PIE*splei,分开，来自 PIE*spel,分开，劈开，词源同 spill,split,flint.引申诸相关词义。

英文词源

split: split: [16] Split was borrowed from Middle Dutch splitten. This, like German spleissen ‘splice’ and English splice [16], goes back to a prehistoric base *spleid-, which may have been related to *spel-, the source of English spill.
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split (v.): 1580s (transitive and intransitive), not found in Middle English, probably from a Low German source such as Middle Dutch splitten, from Proto-Germanic *spl(e)it- (cognates: Danish and Frisian splitte, Old Frisian splita, German spleißen "to split"), from PIE *(s)plei- "to split, splice" (see flint).

U.S. slang meaning "leave, depart" first recorded 1954. Of couples, "to separate, to divorce" from 1942. To split the difference is suggested from 1715; to split (one's) ticket in the U.S. political sense is attested from 1842. To split hairs "make too-nice distinctions" is from 1670s (split a hair). Splitting image "exact likeness" is from 1880. To split the atom is from 1909.
split (adj.): 1640s, past participle adjective from split (v.). Split decision is from 1946 of court rulings, 1951 in boxing. Split shift is from 1904. Split personality first attested 1899.
split (n.): 1590s, "narrow cleft, crack, fissure," from split (v.). Meaning "piece of wood formed by splitting" is from 1610s. Meaning "an act of separation, a divorce" is from 1729. From 1861 as the name of the acrobatic feat. Meaning "a drink composed of two liquors" is from 1882; that of "sweet dish of sliced fruit with ice cream" is attested from 1920, American English. Slang meaning "share of the take" is from 1889. Meaning "a draw in a double-header" is from 1920.

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例句和用法

1. My cuticles were split and ragged, and my nails unevenly bitten.: 我指甲根部的表皮龟裂粗糙，指甲被咬得参差不齐。

2. The Republicans were deeply split between progressives and conservatives.: 共和党的革新派和保守派之间存在严重的分裂。

3. Her company has had to split up and work from two locations.: 她的公司不得不被拆开，分在两处办公。

4. Yet it is feared the Republican leadership could split over the agreement.: 但有人担心，共和党的领导层可能会在该协议上出现意见分歧。

5. He patented the idea that the atom could be split.: 他获得了“原子可以再分”这一概念的专利权。