Instead of making a clean break, water evaporating from treetops tugs on the remaining water molecules, with that tug extending from molecule to molecule all the way down to the roots.

从树梢蒸发的水并没有彻底地分解，而是拉住了剩下的水分子，这种拉拽作用从一个分子延伸到另一个分子，一直拉到根部。

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She wanted to make a clean break with the past.

她想与过去完全断绝。

《牛津词典》

I hope that these facts I have stated in this letter may determine you to make a clean break with your past and start afresh.

我希望这封信中举述的事实能使你翻然悔悟，弃旧图新。

《新英汉大辞典》

Sadly, many people are just too dependent on them to make a clean break.

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You recognize that he represents a clean break from the politics of partisanship and bitter division.

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Many, for example, doubt the territory can survive economically after a clean break with Jakarta.

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