- [countable]
a wall or screen that separates one part of a room from another 隔断;隔扇;隔板墙 The cafe was divided up by glass partitions. 这个咖啡馆里用玻璃隔断相隔。 I could hear him snoring through the thin partition walls. 透过薄薄的隔墙,我能听到他在打鼾。
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc2There were no partitions between the showers. 淋浴喷头之间没有任何东西分隔。 The family had to smash through a glass partition to escape the fire. 这家人只好打碎玻璃隔板逃离了火场。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- movable
- sliding
- folding
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- divide something
- divide something up
- separate something
- …
- wall
- partition between
- [uncountable]
the division of one country into two or more countries 分割;分治;瓜分 the partition of Germany after the war 战后对德国的分割
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin partitio(n-), from partiri ‘divide into parts’.