0 a situation in which two or more people or things are separated -- 分離；分開
They're considering separation as an option. 他們正在考慮選擇分居。
Couples may agree to divorce each other after a separation. 分居之後，夫妻雙方可以協議離婚。
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。
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。
The 'breaking' of the waves is therefore associated with the formation of a flow separation on the downstream face of sinusoidal wave.
For these conditions a flow separation or 'breaking' of the second or third wave downstream of the original groove was a common occurrence.
Consequently, the fluctuating velocity histories felt by the two points are identical, except at the endpoints, and the separation between the two does not change.
This separation has an interesting consequence for the "experimental method" that became established in eighteenth-century chemistry.
The loss of an intimate relationship, which might be related to separation, also increased the risk for depression.
Furthermore, possible separations among populations were examined using multivariate approaches.
It is only with the transition to corporate capitalism that we see a full separation of management and ownership.
Certainly, over a long historical period it might be expected that unrecorded separations would have diminished as a proportion of all marriage breakdowns.
