section

n. 截面；部分；部门；地区；章节

vi. 被切割成片；被分成部分

vt. 把…分段；将…切片；对…进行划分

英文词源

section: section: [16] Section is one of a wide range of English words that go back to Latin secāre ‘cut’. Others include bisect [17], dissect [17], insect, intersect [17], secateurs [19], sector [16], and segment [16]. It goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *sek- ‘cut’, which also produced English saw, scythe, sedge, and sickle. The immediate source of section itself was the Latin derivative sectiō ‘cutting’.
=> bisect, dissect, insect, saw, scythe, secateurs, sedge, segment, sickle
section (n.): late 14c., "intersection of two straight lines; division of a scale;" from Old French section or directly from Latin sectionem (nominative sectio) "a cutting, cutting off, division," noun of action from past participle stem of secare "to cut," from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic seko, sešti "to cut," se čivo "ax, hatchet;" Lithuanian isekti "to engrave, carve;" Albanian šate "mattock;" Old Saxon segasna, Old English sigðe "scythe;" Old English secg "sword," seax "knife, short sword;" Old Irish doescim "I cut;" Latin saxum "rock, stone").

From 1550s as "act of cutting or dividing." Meaning "subdivision of a written work, statute, etc." is from 1570s. Meaning "a part cut off from the rest" is from early 15c.
section (v.): "divide into sections," 1819, from section (n.). Related: Sectioned; sectioning.

1. A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.: 一阵狂风把铺在屋顶上的一块金属片掀起来了。

2. For some buildings a vertical section is more informative than a plan.: 有些建筑的立面图能比平面图提供更多的信息。

3. I'll just flick through the pages until I find the right section.: 我会快速地翻页，直到找到要找的那一部分。

4. An entire poor section of town was bombed into oblivion.: 城市的一整片贫民区被炸为了平地。

5. The cross-country section of the three-day event was held here yesterday.: 3日比赛中的越野项目昨天在这里举行。