词汇释义
dissect TEM8 TEM4 GRE
UK /daɪˈsekt/ /dɪˈsekt/ US /daɪˈsekt/ /dɪˈsekt/
1. verb, If someone dissects something such as a theory, a situation, or a piece of writing, they consider and talk about each detail of it. 仔细分析，详细评论
2. If someone dissects the body of a dead person or animal, they carefully cut it up in order to examine it scientifically. 解剖(人体或动物躯体)
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外刊例句
1. “The press corps is the filter through which much of what we do in government is dissected and explained to the public,” Lightfoot wrote.(Seattle Times)
2. Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew more than a million viewers overnight to a website best-known for video game players, where she dissected this week’s headline-grabbing battle between Reddit online traders and hedge funds.(Reuters)
3. The project took Mr. Stoica from a barge on the river to a huge General Electric engine facility, where the failed components were dissected.(New York Times)
4. “When the kids begin dissecting the pellets, they become so engaged and so vested in discovering what ‘their’ owl ate and comparing their findings with classmates,” Connell said.(Seattle Times)
5. “Without the human layer of someone like Ben dissecting the way that people use the internet, then we wouldn’t be as far ahead as we are in terms of understanding the problem and the scale.”(Seattle Times)
6. Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial will be the first to be dissected in real-time — and possibly by the Twitter-happy president himself.(New York Times)
7. Television news broadcasts are dominated by Brexit, with pundits dissecting daily developments and politicians trading insults.(Seattle Times)
8. Facebook grew into a colossus by vacuuming up peoples’ information in every possible way and dissecting it to shoot targeted ads back at them.(Seattle Times)
9.That is, instead of a “post-mortem” where engineers dissect what went wrong after the fact, they tried to anticipate how people might misuse a feature — for financial gain, for example.(Seattle Times)
10. Editorial page writers for The Wall Street Journal — another Murdoch property — will appear on live segments dissecting the day’s news.(New York Times)
11. While their hard work of dissecting a company’s business is of use to fund managers, analysts are primarily marketing machines for other departments.(Wall Street Journal)
12. The world is too complicated to be dissected and examined this way.(TheEconomist)
词汇搭配
dissect, theory, situation, body
词汇家族
dissected, dissectible, dissective, dissecting, dissection, dissector
词汇来源
c. 1600, "cut in pieces," from Latin dissectus, past participle of dissecare"cut in pieces," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + secare "to cut" (from PIE root *sek- "to cut"). Or perhaps a back-formation from dissection. Specifically as "separate the distinct parts of an animal or plant for the purpose of studying its organization and functions or its morbid affections" from 1610s. Transferred sense of "examine part by part or point by point" is from 1630s.
近义词
analyze, anatomize, assay, cut, deconstruct, examine, inspect, investigate, scrutinize
反义词
agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assimilate, coalesce, conglomerate, consolidate, integrate, synthesize, unify
