| 词组 | dissociate, disassociate |
| 释义 | dissociate, disassociate Dissociate and disassociate share the sense "to separate from association or union with another," and either word may be used in that sense. Dissociate is recommended by a number of commentators on the ground that it is shorter, which it is by a grand total of two letters—not the firmest ground for decision. One commentator (Colter 1981) thinks dissociate is older, but he has not looked in the OED: disassociate dates from 1603, dissociate from 1623. Both words are in current good use, but dissociate is used more often. That may be grounds for your decision. When used with a preposition, both dissociate and disassociate are usually used with from: • ... some flight attendants dissociate themselves from the job —Gail Sheehy, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 23 Oct. 1983 • ... she tries to disassociate herself from the film's apocalyptic ending —Stephen J. Sansweet, Wall Street Jour., 10 Dec. 1981 Both words, however, are used with other prepositions from time to time: • ... the restaurant, which he became disassociated with in June 1983 —Julie Gilbert, Houston Post, 3 Sept. 1984 • ... Albertine is ... dissociated into so many different images —Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle, 1931 • ... there is a rule in English which dissociates consonants out of the onsets of unstressed syllables — program of annual meeting, Linguistic Society of America, 27-30 Dec. 1983 Dissociate has a chemical sense which disassociate lacks and which can take the preposition into: • ... hydrochloric acid dissociates into hydrogen ions and chloride ions —William D. McElroy, Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 1961 |
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