1. 1造成對立的、撕裂的

    A divisive thing splits people into camps. A divisive law, joke, leader, or post does not just cause a small argument; it makes two sides that struggle to like each other afterwards. Newspapers love the word. Though actually, people sometimes stretch it: they call anything they dislike “divisive,” even when the room is only . The core picture is a cut down the middle of a group. It is about the effect on people, not about company departments (that would be ).

core核心畫面

組成Borrowed from Latin dīvīsīvus — “tending to split.” Same divide family, but this one is about people, not numbers.

同家族的字

  • divideto split people or things apart — the action behind this adjective
  • divisionthe split itself; also disagreement between groups

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

divisiveadj/dɪˈvaɪsɪv/

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    Having a quality that divides or separates.

    • Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.
    • [W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]

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