English主要词典
dissect
Universal Words
verb [VN]
1 to cut up a dead person, animal or plant in order to study it:
The biology students had to dissect a rat. * dissecting instruments
2 to study sth closely and/or discuss it in great detail:
Her latest novel was dissected by the critics.
3 to divide sth into smaller pieces, areas, etc:
The city is dissected by a network of old canals.
dissection noun [U,C]:
anatomical dissection * Your enjoyment of a novel can suffer from too much analysis and dissection.
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