| 词组 | take apart |
| 释义 | take apart 1. take sth apart to separate something into the different parts that it is made from: ▪ Danskin was taking his gun apart so that he could clean it. ▪ Gegs spent the day taking his motorbike engine apart, but he couldn't work out what was wrong with it. ■ SIMILAR TO: dismantle formal, ↑strip down ■ OPPOSITE: put together 2. take sb apart informal to attack someone cause them serious injuries: ▪ If you don't get out of here, mister, we're going to take you apart. ▪ I had beaten him in a fair fight, but no boy would admit that a girl had taken him apart. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑thrash informal 3. take sb apart informal to beat someone very easily in a game, sport, or fight: ▪ The Falcons' quarterback was injured, and the Packers took them apart. ■ SIMILAR TO: walk all over sb, ↑sweep aside 4. take sth apart if you take a room, house etc apart, you look in every part of it because you are searching for something: ▪ The police came and took the place apart, but they didn't find anything. 5. take sth apart to carefully examine what someone has written in order to consider and criticize the ideas in it: ▪ The tutor marked our assignments, and then took them apart one by one, in front of the whole class. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pull apart 6. take sb apart to criticize someone very strongly: ▪ Clinton got taken apart by the press after his affair with Monica Lewinsky. ■ SIMILAR TO: roast informal |
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