英 [dɪˈvaɪsɪv] 美 [dɪˈvaɪsɪv]
adj. 有争议的，造成分裂的
divisive /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/ TEM8
形容词 Something that is divisive causes unfriendliness and argument between people. 造成不和的; 引起纷争的
Abortion has always been a divisive issue.
堕胎一直是个有争议的问题。
dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
同义词： dissentious / factious
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分裂的；区分的；造成不和的
Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America?
美国是否存在分裂社会的问题和极度愤怒的群体？
Abortion has always been a divisive issue.
堕胎一直是个有争议的问题。
He believes that unemployment is socially divisive.
他认为失业会引起社会不稳定。
Even after his appeal, Congress may consider the issue too divisive to deal with before the November elections.
VOA : special.2010.07.03
Religion can be a divisive tool, but it can also be one allows for dialogue, allows for conversation.
宗教有时是分割彼此的因素，有时也是,允许更多对话交流的工具。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.
我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
Until the measure becomes law, medical testing on chimpanzees will continue to be a highly divisive, and hotly debated,issue.
VOA : standard.2010.02.16
"In 1940 Disney lost both of his parents, and shortly after that his company experienced a very divisive strike.
VOA : standard.2010.02.26
Abroad, a second Bush term may well be just as ideological and divisive as the first.
But illegal immigration remains a divisive subject that still arouses visceral opposition among some Americans.
Reconciling those contradictions will be difficult in an atmosphere of increasingly divisive and partisan politics.