divorce

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

Numerous marriages now end in divorce. 现在许多婚姻都以离婚而告终。

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

He and Lillian had got divorced. 他和莉莲离婚了。

I am absolutely furious that he divorced me to marry her. 我实在很生气他和我离婚娶了她。

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. 分离; 脱离

...this divorce of Christian culture from the roots of faith. …基督教文化与信仰根源的分离。

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. 使分离; 使脱离

Good management in the police cannot be divorced from accountability. 警政的良好管理离不开问责制。

Democracy cannot be divorced from social and economic progress. 民主离不开社会和经济的进步。