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 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。
• The dividing line between the two air masses is called a front.
  这两股气团的分界线叫锋面。
• The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the Civil War.
  美国宾夕法尼亚州和马里兰州的州界线；内战前是南北的象征性界线。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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 Great Wall is divided into two sections, the east and west, with Shanxi Province as the dividing line.
  长城是分为两个部分，东部和西部，与山西省的分界线。
• Software, too, has a pretty clear dividing line between goal-directed tasks and excise tasks.
  软件在目标导向的任务和附加工作任务之间存在相当清晰的分界线。