B1 existing or happening independently or in a different physical space各自的;单独的,不同的
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We each have a separate bedroom but share a communal kitchen.
Householders are given four separate receptacles for their rubbish.
The waiter asked if we were all together so I explained that we were two separate parties.
He regarded the north of the country as a separate cultural entity.
The museums work closely together, but are separate legal entities.
B2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) divide into parts(使)分离;(使)分开
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It's sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction in what she says.
In many churches the side aisles are separated from the central aisle by a row of arches.
A narrow band of grass separated the greenhouse from the vegetable garden.
A grille separated the prisoners from their visitors.
I've separated the documents into three piles.
B2 [ I or T ] to make people move apart or into different places, or to move apart(使)分开;(使)分散
[ T ] to consider two people or things as different or not related分开考虑;认为(两者)不相关
[ I ] If a liquid separates, it becomes two different liquids.(液体)分离
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