dividing line

英 [dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ laɪn]

美 [dɪˈvaɪdɪŋ laɪn]

n.  (两种事物或思想的)分界线，界限; (分隔两个地区的)地界，分界线

TOEFL

牛津词典

noun

• （两种事物或思想的）分界线，界限
  something that marks the separation between two things or ideas
  1. There is no clear dividing line between what is good and what is bad.
     是非之间没有明确的界限。
• （分隔两个地区的）地界，分界线
  a place that separates two areas
  1. The river was chosen as a dividing line between the two districts.
     两个地区以这条河流为界。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 分界线;界限
  Adividing lineis a distinction or set of distinctions which marks the difference between two types of thing or two groups.
  1. There's a very thin dividing line between joviality and hysteria.
     激动和歇斯底里之间就一线之隔。
• N-SING (两个地区间的)界限
  The dividing linebetween two areas is the boundary between them.
  1. ...people on both sides of the dividing line between Israel and the occupied territories.
     居住在以色列和占领区分界线两边的人民

英英释义

noun

• a conceptual separation or distinction
  1. there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity
  Synonym:linedemarcationcontrast

双语例句

• The river was chosen as a dividing line between the two districts.
  两个地区以这条河流为界。
• Axis: An imaginary dividing line around which design elements are located.
  轴线：一条虚设的分界线，利用它来确定设计单元的摆放位置。
• The most fundamental dividing line between living organisms is that between prokaryote and eukaryote cells.
  生物首先划分为原核生物与真核生物。
• The test is seen, rightly, as a bright dividing line in a young person's life.
  考试被理所当然地视为年轻人生命中一条鲜明的分界线。
• The dividing line between foods and medicines has always been a hazy one.
  食品和药物之间的分野一直就很模糊。
• To be a good judge, one has to draw a clear dividing line between good and evil.
  善恶与赏罚&社会学和心理学的阐释要想当一个好法官，你必须明确区分善与恶。
• There's a very thin dividing line between joviality and hysteria.
  激动和歇斯底里之间就一线之隔。
• The real dividing line between continents and oceans occurs at the foot a steeper slope.
  大陆和海洋的真正分界线是在陡破脚下。
• For some distance the Rhine forms the dividing line between France and Germany.
  莱茵河构成法国和德国之间的一段分界线。
• In the end I come back to a distinction that Keynes made in a lecture in the 1920s between the agenda and the non-agenda of government. The dividing line is bound to change and cannot be fixed for all time.
  最后，我回到了上世纪20年代凯恩斯在一次演讲中对政府议程和非议程的划分上。两者的分界线注定会改变，一成不变是不可能的。