demarcation: [18] As its form and meaning would suggest, demarcation is indeed related to mark, but only in a distinctly roundabout way. The word comes, possibly via French, from Spanish demarcación, a derivative of the verb demarcar ‘mark out the boundaries of’, which in turn is descended ultimately from the same prehistoric Germanic ancestor as English mark ‘sign, trace’.
It originally came into English in very specific application to the boundary line between the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence in the New World, as laid down by Pope Alexander VI in a bull of 4 May 1493. In Spanish this was the linea de demarcación (in Portuguese, linha de demarcação). By the middle of the 18th century the word was being used in English in much more general contexts.
The familiar modern phrase demarcation dispute, relating to inter-union squabbles, dates from the 1930s.
demarcation (n.)
c. 1752, from Spanish linea de demarcacion or Portuguese linha de demarcaçao, name of the line laid down by Pope Alexander VI, May 4, 1493, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal on a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Applied from 1801 to other lines dividing regions. From Spanish de- (see de-) + marcar "to mark the boundaries of," from a Germanic source (see mark (n.1)).
demarcation 英文释义
1. the boundary of a specific area
2. a conceptual separation or demarcation;
"there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
demarcation 双语例句
1. It was hard to draw clear lines of demarcation between work and leisure.
在工作和闲暇之间很难划出明确的界限。
来自《权威词典》
2. Talks were continuing about the demarcation of the border between the two countries.
关于两国之间边界划定问题的谈判仍在继续。
来自柯林斯例句
3. There is no sharp demarcation between these two types.
在这两种结构之间,没有明显的分界.
来自辞典例句
4. A sharp demarcation of adventive embryos from zygotic embryos cannot be drawn.
不定胚与合子胚之间不能划分出明显的界限.
来自辞典例句
5. The demarcation among characters in a string.
字符串中各字符间的分界.
来自辞典例句
demarcation 实用场景例句
It was hard to draw clear lines of demarcation between work and leisure.
在工作和闲暇之间很难划出明确的界限。
牛津词典
social demarcations
社会阶层的划分
牛津词典
...the demarcation line between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir...
克什米尔的印度控制区和巴基斯坦控制区之间的分界线
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Talks were continuing about the demarcation of the border between the two countries.
关于两国之间边界划定问题的谈判仍在继续。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Black and white edge, is the ash demarcation line.
黑与白的边缘, 是灰的界线.
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In my perception chamber pot suggests the social economic demarcation.
在我的观点,夜壶导出社会与经济之定界.
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It is famous for Penglai and Demarcation Line of the Bohai and the Yellow Sea.
著名的蓬莱阁就在蓬莱市.在田横山上可以看到黄渤海分界线.
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Today, the demarcation line between art and design become and more blurred.
当今, 艺术与设计的界限正在逐渐模糊.
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The debugging and demarcation Methods: Were introduced in detail.
详细说明了系统的 调试方法 和如何对仪器进行标定.
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Alienation effect is a line of demarcation between Chinese and western drama.
摘要间离效果是中西戏剧艺术的分水岭.
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He has consistently criticized the overall coherence and a clear demarcation of consciousness.
他的批判始终具有一种总体上的连贯性和明显的划界意识.
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Curzon Line: Demarcation line Between Poland and Soviet Russia.
寇松线: 波兰和苏俄之间的边界线.
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The new Ecopark zone is actually the extension and demarcation of an existing wetland habitat.
新生态公园区是现有生态湿地的分界和延伸.
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There is no distinguishing demarcation line between the good and the bad. So are the criminals.
在善与恶之间并没有一条可以辨别得出的界限, 罪犯们也是这样.
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We must draw a clear line of demarcation between the two.
我们必须划清两者之间的界线.
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Parallel on the Korean peninsula is located 38 degrees north latitude, near a military demarcation line.
三八线是位于朝鲜半岛上北纬38度附近的一条军事分界线.
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In December 2000, China and Viet Nam entered into the Beibu Gulf Demarcation Agreement.
2000年12月, 中国与越南签订了北部湾划界协定.
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There is no sharp demarcation between these two types.
在这两种结构之间,没有明显的分界.
辞典例句
Therefore, framing is an issue of borders, inside and outside the frame as the primary demarcation.
因此, 取景是关于边界的问题, 在镜头内还是在镜头外是首要的界限.
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Xiangshan due to the maintenance of boundary demarcation will be the promotion of Guangdong province's response.
由于香山勘界维持会之推动,广东全省响应.
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From a medical point of view that AIDS patients and AIDS patients with no clear demarcation.
从医学角度说,艾滋病病人与艾滋病患者还没有明确的划分.
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The Republic of China made great progress in the demarcation of the territorial waters.
领海划界问题在民国时期取得了较大的进步.
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The criterion of irreversibility is also not decisive for the interpretation of demarcation of developmental homeostasis.
不可逆标准对于解释或区分发育同形作用也是不明确的.
辞典例句
There can be no distinct demarcation in your time when it comes to thoughts.
可能并没有什么明确的划分说什么时间用来思考.
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Can we see clearly the demarcation line?
王渊源:两海的分界线能看得出来嘛?
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From his point of view of relativism and irrationalism, Feyerabend tries to dissolve the demarcation problem.
费伊阿本德从其相对主义与非理性主义的立场, 提出消解划界标准.
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A sharp demarcation of adventive embryos from zygotic embryos cannot be drawn.
不定胚与合子胚之间不能划分出明显的界限.
辞典例句
It also refuses to withdraw its claim about the line of demarcation of exclusive economic zone.
它还拒绝收回它对专属经济区分界线的主张.
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The demarcation between the cities and the wilderness remains, separating two very different worlds.
