0 a situation in which two or more people or things are separated -- 分離；分開
During the war many couples had to endure long periods of separation (= not being together). 戰爭期間，很多夫婦不得不忍受長期分離之苦。
After many years the South African government finally abandoned its apartheid system of racial separation. 多年之後，南非政府最終廢除了種族隔離制度。
Couples may agree to divorce each other after a separation. 分居之後，夫妻雙方可以協議離婚。
They're considering separation as an option. 他們正在考慮選擇分居。
the pain of separation
Therefore, a separation between sugars and organic or silage acids was needed.
Physically, this is because, on average, the mean shear causes larger separation between particle pairs so that larger eddies disperse them.
He introduced the idea of diffusivity depending on separation of particles.
