divorce

1. N-VAR A divorce is the formal ending of a marriage by law. 離婚

Numerous marriages now end in divorce. 現在許多婚姻都以離婚而告終。

2. V-RECIP If a man and woman divorce or if one of them divorces the other, their marriage is legally ended. 離婚

He and Lillian had got divorced. 他和莉蓮離婚了。

I am absolutely furious that he divorced me to marry her. 我實在很生氣他和我離婚娶了她。

3. N-SING A divorce of one thing from another, or a divorce between two things is a separation between them which is permanent or is likely to be permanent. 分離; 脫離

...this divorce of Christian culture from the roots of faith. …基督教文化與信仰根源的分離。

4. V-T If you say that one thing cannot be divorced from another, you mean that the two things cannot be considered as different and separate things. 使分離; 使脫離

Good management in the police cannot be divorced from accountability. 警政的良好管理離不開問責制。

Democracy cannot be divorced from social and economic progress. 民主離不開社會和經濟的進步。