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parting

/pahr-ting/US // ˈpɑr tɪŋ //UK // (ˈpɑːtɪŋ) //

离别,分别,分离,分手

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that parts.
    • : a division or separation.
    • : a place of division or separation.
    • : a departure or leave-taking.
    • : death.
    • : something that serves to part or separate things.
    • : Mineralogy. a fracture of a crystal along a plane determined by twinning or pressure rather than along a cleavage plane.
    • : Metallurgy. parting line.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given, happening, taken, done, etc., at parting: a parting glance.
    • : of or relating to parting, leave-taking, departure, or death: parting words.
    • : ending or taking leave: the parting day.
    • : dying.
    • : dividing or separating.

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Examples

  • Chris Harrison, the longtime host of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, is leaving the franchise permanently following a racism controversy—and has reportedly received a major parting deal.

  • She discovered that like parents, trees send a parting gift of nutrients as they expire.

  • Normally, a crisis portends a parting of the ways from a point of uncertainty before events move on.

  • These clauses require a town to give a retiring officer months of pay as a parting benefit.

  • In a statement early Thursday afternoon, First Look described Poitras’s parting from the company as a “natural” decision to not renew her contract after she “decided to step away from her role at the company to pursue her own projects.”

  • When it came to shooting the famous parting of the Red Sea, Ridley Scott elected to show a tsunami splitting the waters.

  • In parting, I asked, if she had to pick one thing about the clubs that had made a lasting impression on her, what it would be.

  • Bedouin women wore bright clothes and burqas, the parting of their hair and their kohl-lined eyes left exposed.

  • Like the Bedouins, they left their faces and the parting of their hair exposed.

  • As I leave,  I mention in parting how Culkin deserves some serious Tony Awards consideration for his performance.

  • He looked up sharply, his lips parting in a smile that revealed his strong white teeth.

  • Good-bye, then, Miss Warrender; parting is such sweet sorrow, I e'en could say good-bye until to-morrow.

  • It is certain that I then had a bad cough nearly always; and this I am sure was what decided the form of his parting gift to me.

  • This, of course, I gladly granted as well as a little parting gratuity.

  • "Follow presently," was his parting command to the man who still knelt upon Rabecque, and with that he vanished too.