deconstruct
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they deconstruct | |
| he / she / it deconstructs | |
| past simple deconstructed | |
| past participle deconstructed | |
| -ing form deconstructing |
- deconstruct something (specialist)
(in literature and philosophy 文学和哲学 to analyse a text in order to show that there is no fixed meaning within the text but that the meaning is created each time in the act of reading 解构（文本没有固定意义，只有在阅读中才获得意义） - deconstruct something (into something)
to separate something into the parts from which it is made up and put them together again in a different way 拆分后重组 Picasso deconstructed his subjects into cubes and colours. 毕加索将他的表现对象拆解重组为一个个小方块和不同的颜色。
Word Originlate 19th cent.: back-formation from deconstruction.