Cleavage

(noun.) the act of cleaving or splitting.

(noun.) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts).

(noun.) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum.

(noun.) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.

(noun.) the state of being split or cleft; 'there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members'.

编辑:沃伦

• The ship's prow cleaved on, with a faint noise of cleavage, into the complete night, without knowing, without seeing, only surging on. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This cleavage in public affairs is the most important choice we are called upon to make. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This incident of the short ballot illustrates the cleavage between invention and routine. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is no obvious cleavage which everyone recognizes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But let them all be represented in one room by men who are professionally interested in their constituency's prejudices and what would you accomplish but a deepening of the cleavages? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

录入:萨姆纳