Word
desegregate
废除（某地的）种族隔离；使…向所有种族开放
open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
- 1.
To end the segregation of (something).
结束(某事物)的种族隔离。
结束(某事物)的种族隔离。；废止种族隔离
In use
The school board voted to desegregate the city's public schools last year.
It took many years to desegregate the local buses and trains.
The new policies slowly desegregated the neighborhood and brought families together.
desegregate + noun phrase
及物动词，后接被废止隔离的场所或机构。
The government moved to desegregate all public schools.
政府着手废止所有公立学校的种族隔离。
be desegregated
被动语态常用于描述历史事件。
The city's parks were desegregated in the 1960s.
这座城市公园在20世纪60年代废止了种族隔离。
desegregate + noun phrase + by + gerund phrase
表示通过某种方式实现废止隔离。
They desegregated the district by redrawing boundaries.
他们通过重新划定边界废除了这个地区的种族隔离。
Verb forms
base desegregate · third person desegregates · -ing desegregating · past desegregated · past participle desegregated
及物动词，常用于被动语态
Common mistakes
The desegregate of schools was important.The desegregation of schools was important.
Desegregate是动词，不能直接作名词用。应用名词形式desegregation。
The policy desegregated black students from white students.The policy desegregated the schools, allowing black and white students to attend together.
Desegregate意为废除隔离而非实施隔离，因此不能与from连用表示分离，而应直接接场所，表示开放该场所给所有种族。
Connections
Collocations
- desegregate schools
- 废除学校种族隔离
- The court ordered the city to desegregate its schools.法院命令该市废除学校的种族隔离。
- desegregate the armed forces
- 废除武装部队中的种族隔离
- The president signed an order to desegregate the armed forces.总统签署了一项命令，废除武装部队中的种族隔离。
- desegregate public facilities
- 废除公共设施的种族隔离
- Federal laws required states to desegregate public facilities.联邦法律要求各州废除公共设施的种族隔离。
- desegregate neighborhoods
- 消除居住区的种族隔离
- New housing policies slowly began to desegregate neighborhoods.新的住房政策开始逐步消除居住区的种族隔离。
- desegregate the bus system
- 废除公交系统的种族隔离
- The activists campaigned to desegregate the bus system.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把desegregate拆成de（去掉）+segregate（隔离）：想象拆除隔开人群的栅栏，让所有人同行——即废除种族隔离。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：legal and civil rights discourse、historical accounts、education policy 该词多用于正式场合，常见于民权运动、法律与历史叙述中；日常口语中较少使用。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 desegregate 形成严格押韵的词是 segregate。aggregate、congregate、relegate、delegate、navigate 只是拼写或结尾 -gate 相近，重读元音及其后的辅音组合不同，不算押韵；另外 aggregate 和 delegate 作名词或形容词时常读作 /ət/ 结尾。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.