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 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。
• The dividing line between the two air masses is called a front.
  这两股气团的分界线叫锋面。
• And that dividing line is not a brick wall; it is a criteria, he says.
  这条分界线不是一堵砖墙，而是一个标准，他表示。
• Making a clear dividing line between the sales revenue from mixed sale and sideline business;
  明确混合销售行为和兼营行为的销售额划分问题；
• There is a thin dividing line between educating the public and creating a predisposition to panic.
  对公众进行教育和制造恐慌倾向之间没有明显的分界。
• The farmland where the young couple met represents an invisible but indelible dividing line.
  这对年轻人约会的农田代表了看不见却难以忽视的分界线。
• The dividing line between the two is not always sharp.
  两者的分界线不总是明确的。
• The dividing line between oil painting and Chinese painting is conveying the perfect nature properly.
  油画和国画的界限在于恰当的表达完尽的自然。
• 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。
• 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。