Darts of bright light shot asunder, darkness swept over the centre of the lake.
明亮的光标飞向四方,黑暗趁虚而入席卷了湖心。
cleave a block of wood asunder [in two]
把一块木头直劈成两半
Even Jordan's party; the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
连乔丹的那一伙,从东卵来的那四位,也由于意见不和而四分五裂了。
Their opinions are poles asunder.
他们的意见截然相反。
🌱 联想助记
【记】as-正如,under-下:正如掉在地上→成为碎片
📖 牛津释义
asunder
adv
(dated or fml 旧或文) into pieces; apart 碎; 散
families torn asunder by the revolution 被革命拆散的家庭
The house was ripped asunder by the explosion. 房子被炸得粉碎.
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.