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凌哥，separate与separated有什么关系？

你好！

你的提问，应该是指这两个都当做形容词的用法的区别吧。像这种区别，如果用翻译法来解释，有时候会越解释越糊涂。所以，用英文解释法更容易区分他们的区别。使用例句，也能更清楚地区分。不知道你是几年级的学生？凌哥就直接抄袭英文词典了，希望你能看懂。Collins词典的解释用词，还是比较简单的。

【Collins词典】

separate:

2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]形容词，通常后接名词

If you refer to separate things, you mean several different things, rather than just one thing.

Use separate chopping boards for raw meats, cooked meats, vegetables and salads.

Men and women have separate exercise rooms.

The authorities say six civilians have been killed in two separate attacks.

separated:

1. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]形容词，前接联系动词

Someone who is separated from their wife or husband lives apart from them, but is not divorced.

Most single parents are either divorced or separated.

Tristan had been separated from his wife for two years. [+ from]

2. adjective

If you are separated from someone, for example your family, you are not able to be with them.

The idea of being separated from him, even for a few hours, was torture. [+ from]

They're trying their best to bring together those separated families.

至于这两个词的关系，凌哥可以说这两个形容词之间没有关系吗？

separate作形容词的时候，就是一个十足的形容词，表示所指的那些事物相互之间没有关系。separated则是和动词separate有关，是separate的过去分词充当定语，所以还有一点动词的痕迹，即“原本是连结在一起的，后来分开了”，所以例题中提到了夫妻分居，就是用了separated。