名詞 separation:

1. the act of dividing or disconnecting
2. coming apart
   同義詞：breakup, detachment
3. the state of lacking unity
4. the distance between things
   同義詞：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)
   同義詞：legal separation

1. Separation from her children was a terrible wrench.
   同她的孩子們分別是一項很大的痛苦。
2. The treatment of metal or the separation of metal from ores and ore concentrates by liquid processes, such as leaching, extraction, and precipitation.
   水冶金術通過液體過程，象過濾，提煉，沉淀等方法處理金屬，從礦石中或礦石濃縮物中分離出金屬
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.
   氣流分離移動的流線型的軀體上流體邊界層上的分隔物，如飛機的機翼，在平滑的流體流動中會引起故障和湍流
4. Friends managed to reconcile him with his wife after years of separation.
   經(jīng)過多年分居后朋友們設法使他與妻子重修舊好。
5. He was unhappy because of his separation from his mother.
   他因與母親分離而感到不快。