In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The dispersion of a ray of white light separates it into its component color rays. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The heat separates the ammonia gas from the water, and the gas is then used to operate a suitable engine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant, and royal from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9. 柏拉图.理想国.
And how enormous is the distance which separates the just from the unjust in regard to pleasure and pain! 柏拉图.理想国.
In a few moments the latter separates and there is distinctly seen a woman’s body, the lower part of which is hidden by a basket of flowers. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
Would you know the measure of the interval which separates them? 柏拉图.理想国.
And the greater the interval which separates them from philosophy and reason, the more strange and illusive will be the pleasure? 柏拉图.理想国.
A thin knife-edge partition board, arranged below the falling sheets of sand, separates the deflected magnetic particles from the straight-falling sand. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
The sunlight separates silver chloride into its constituents, silver and chlorine. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
Shall two years more be thus passed, each day adding to our alienation, each act being another stone piled on the barrier which separates us? 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Mechanical rigid woodenness is an inevitable corollary of any theory which separates mind from activity motivated by a purpose. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.