vt.,vi. 二分，对分，叉分；(把…)分成两叉。 dichotomize the animal world into vertebrate and invertebrate 把动物界分为脊椎动物和无脊椎动物。
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Said ' s main critique is directed against the way in which the western ( defined more specifically as british , french , and to a certain extent more recently , north american ) economic , political and academic powers have developed a dichotomized discourse in which an ascendant west is juxtaposed with a silent eastern other according to terms and definitions specified and determined by the west itself . chapter three is about how people could avoid the determining restrictions of the perspectives and underlying rules set down by orientalism 赛氏主要是在批判西方(准确的说是英国、法国和近来的北美)通过其经济的、政治的以及学术的力量、以及自身所规定的一套术语和规则来建立一套二元对立的话语，在这套话语当中，高高在上的西方对位于一个被规训的、沉默的东方“他者” 。
