tease apart

1. The Pew researchers speculate that this is because more women than men are unemployed by choice, although the study didn't attempt to tease apart that difference.
   佩尤的研究人员推测，那是因为比起男性，更多的女性选择赋闲在家，尽管该研究并不想对这种差别进行嘲讽。
2. So to try to tease one apart as to which one is the culprit can be difficult.
   因此，要设法取笑为哪一个是罪魁祸首之一，除了是很困难的。
3. And later in the semester we will tease apart just a little bit what these patterns are and why they do what they do.
   过一段时间，我们会知晓它们的模式是什么，为什么它们这么做，它们都做了哪些事情。
4. So if we tease this apart and this is actually nice, every semester I get beat up for just how bad this thing actually is if you start really picking it apart.
   因此，如果我们分解这个部分，这其实是不错的，不管事情多么糟糕，分解一下就好了。

verb

1. disentangle and raise the fibers of
   1. tease wool

   Synonym:    teaseloosen