1550s, "act of segregating," from Late Latin segregationem (nominative segregatio), noun of action from past participle stem of segregare (see segregate). Meaning "state of being segregated" is from 1660s. Specific U.S. sense of "enforced separation of races" is attested from 1883.
Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved nation. The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, and should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation. [Lyndon Johnson, speech introducing Voting Rights Act, March 15, 1965]
中文解释
1. se- "apart from" + greg- + -ation.2. => separate from the flock.
实用例句
1. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
联邦最高法院一致裁定学校实行的种族隔离措施违反宪法。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Connecticut agreed to end its segregation of prison inmates suffering from AIDS.
康涅狄格州同意不再隔离患艾滋病的囚犯。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960 s.
在60年代初,许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Partitions provided a segregation between the smoking and non - smoking areas of the canteen.
隔断把餐厅分成了吸烟区和 非吸烟 区.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. They were tired to death of segregation and of being kicked around.
