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（使整体事物变成几部分或使联在一起的事物离开） divide; separate; part
cannot bear to part from each other
难舍难分
Do you divide your hair at the side or in the middle?
你的头发是偏分还是中间分?
All things invariably divide into two.
事物都是一分为二的。
Let's separate them into six lots.
我们把它们分为六堆吧。
The year is divided into four seasons.
一年分四季。
This medicine is to be taken in three separate doses every day.
这药每天分三次吃。
（分配） distribute; assign; allot
He was assigned to the heat-treatment shop of the mill.
他被分到厂里的热处理车间。
He was allotted a three-room flat.
他分得了一户三室的套房。
They seized the land and distributed it among the peasants.
他们夺回土地，分给了农民。
（辨别） distinguish; differentiate; tell one from another
make no distinction between black and white [right and wrong]
不分青红皂白
He couldn't distinguish right from wrong.
他是非不分。
I can never tell him from his brother.
我总是分不清他和他的弟弟。
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（分支； 部分） branch (of an organization)
branch (of a shop)
分店
a branch company
分公司
the second volume of a work; Book Two
第二分册
the Dalian Branch of the Xinhua News Agency
新华社大连分社
（分数） fraction
reduction of a fraction
约分
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（表示分数） portion; part
half
二分之一
one-third; a third part
三分之一
three-fourths
四分之三
（十分之一） one-tenth
70 per cent achievements, 30 per cent mistakes
七分成绩， 三分错误
be hundred-percent sure
有十分把握
give as much light as the heat can produce; exert every bit of one's energy
有一分热， 发一分光
（长度单位） fen, a unit of length (=1/3 centimetre)
three chi and half a cun
三尺零五分
（地积单位） fen, a unit of area (=66.666 square metres)
3.7 mu of land
三亩七分地
（重量单位） fen, a unit of weight (=1/2 gram)
2.45 liang
二两四钱五分
（货币单位） fen, a fractional unit of money in China (=1/100 of a yuan or 1/10 of a jiao)
11.65 yuan; eleven yuan sixty-five fen
十一元六角五分
（时间单位） minute (=1/60 of an hour)
get up at ten past six
六点十分起床
It is five minutes to seven.
现在是七点差五分。
（弧或角的计量单位） minute (=1/60 of a degree)
form an angle of 36 degrees 30 minutes (36°30')
成36度30分角
（经度或纬度的计量单位） minute (1/60 of a degree)
129 degrees 15 minutes (129°15') east longitude
东经129度15分
（利率单位） rate of interest
10％ interest a year
年利一分
1％ interest a month
月利一分
（评定成绩等的计数单位） point; mark
score 70 marks
得70分
She got 95 marks in the English examination.
她英语考了95分。
We won by five points.
我们赢了5分。