separable
adjectiveWord Family
- separate adjective
- separately adverb
- separable adjective (≠ inseparable)
- separate verb
- separated adjective
- separation noun
- separable (from something)
that can be separated from something, or considered separately 可分开的；可分隔的；可分离的 The moral question is not entirely separable from the financial one. 道德问题和财政问题不能截然分开。 Good and evil are not always easily separable categories. 善与恶并不总是容易分开的范畴。 The influences of home and school are not easily separable. 家庭和学校的影响是不容易分开的。 The two things were never identical, but never separable from each other. 这两样东西决不相同，但也决不可彼此分开。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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grammar 语法 (of a phrasal verb 短语动词 that can be used with the object going either between the verb and the particle or after the particle 可分的；可分离的；可分开的 opposite inseparable
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin separabilis, from separare ‘disjoin, divide’, from se- ‘apart’ + parare ‘prepare’.