Sunday, June 20, 2010

Divisive: creating disunity or dissension *a divisive issue*

divisive adj.dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
divisible 可分割的

That makes it a highly divisive issue in a nation where the political fight over abortion is still intense. 在美国这个因为堕胎而吵得不可开交的国家里,干细胞研究是一个争议很大的问题。

A mind that clings to or desires an experience is pursuing the fallacy of value,and so becomes private, secretive and divisive.
追逐经验并紧抓着经验不放的头脑,是在追求错误的价值,因而变得自私,遮遮掩掩,并导致分裂。

nominal:figurehead=absolute:autocrat
nominal:significance=disjunctive:unity /divisive:continuity(x)
 
 
disjunction
 
1 : a sharp cleavage : DISUNION, SEPARATION *the disjunction between theory and practice*

2 : a compound sentence in logic formed by joining two simple statements by or: a : INCLUSIVE DISJUNCTION b : EXCLUSIVE DISJUNCTION

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