separation

名词 separation:

1. the act of dividing or disconnecting
2. coming apart
   同义词：breakup, detachment
3. the state of lacking unity
4. the distance between things
   同义词：interval
5. sorting one thing from others
6. the social act of separating or parting company
7. the space where a division or parting occurs
8. the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
9. (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
   同义词：legal separation

1. Separation from her children was a terrible wrench.
   同她的孩子们分别是一项很大的痛苦。
2. The treatment of metal or the separation of metal from ores and ore concentrates by liquid processes, such as leaching, extraction, and precipitation.
   水冶金术通过液体过程，象过滤，提炼，沉淀等方法处理金属，从矿石中或矿石浓缩物中分离出金属
3. A separation in the boundary layer of fluid about a moving streamlined body, such as the wing of an airplane, causing a breakdown in the smooth flow of fluid and resulting in turbulence.
   气流分离移动的流线型的躯体上流体边界层上的分隔物，如飞机的机翼，在平滑的流体流动中会引起故障和湍流
4. Friends managed to reconcile him with his wife after years of separation.
   经过多年分居后朋友们设法使他与妻子重修旧好。
5. He was unhappy because of his separation from his mother.
   他因与母亲分离而感到不快。