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divide someone/something from someone/something
collocation
to mark the edge or limit between two things, places, groups, etc.:
There's a narrow alley that divides our house from the one next door.一条窄窄的小巷将我们的房子和邻居的隔开了。
It's not just a language that divides us from our neighbours to the north, but a whole culture.
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divideverb
The cliffs were divided from the plains by a deep river.
There had been a number of skirmishes on the border dividing the country from its neighbour to the east.
Only two points divide them from their closest contender in the league.
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