1(of a road, route, or line) separate from another route and go in a different direction.

〈喻〉在大学里他们就分道扬镳了。

1. 1.1 (of an opinion, theory, or approach) differ.
   （意见、理论、方法等）分歧，相异
   the coverage by the columnists diverged from that in the main news stories

   专栏作家涉足的领域和主要的新闻故事的内容是截然不同的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • As the season begins, however, our two concepts diverge significantly.
   • I addressed only the final point you made because it was there that our opinions diverged.
   • Let's talk about the wildly diverging opinions.
   • But this common concept once shared by the East and West has diverged.
   • There are other ways too in which these supernatural encounters diverge from the medieval norm.
   • The essay by Craig Dworkin's diverges wildly from this approach.
   • Already, we can see why they may diverge in their approach, and hence their conclusion, to a case.
   • Such a convergence was not a given - the two approaches sometimes diverge.
   • Thenceforward these two approaches tend to diverge.
   • Where we diverge most sharply with Mr. Dean is on his emerging world view.
   • Our experiences and opinions diverge in areas and on issues I consider most important to the larger ‘body politic.’
   • On some issues, the views of faculty diverged significantly from public opinion.
   • Thus, our opinions diverge on the question of how consistent the book is in its overall treatment of its subjects.
   • Although not thoroughly tested in the courts at the time of writing, legal opinion diverges widely on these questions.
   • Some of the most interesting speakers in the Commons debates were those who diverged slightly from party lines.
   • They argued that correlations could increase while observed and simulated global means diverge.
   • But while both performances include period instruments, their approaches to the music diverge in revealing ways.
   • Once a condition progresses, however, approaches to treatment diverge among cultures.
   • On one key subject in particular, European and American attitudes diverge and are moving further apart by the day.
   • Today's offering suggests two issues where our opinions diverge.

   Synonyms

   differ, be different, be unlike, be dissimilar

   disagree, be at variance, be at odds, be incompatible, come into conflict, conflict, clash
2. 1.2diverge from Depart from (a set course or standard)
   偏离；背离
   suddenly he diverged from his text

   突然他偏离了课本。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • However, of late, some State forces have diverged from the national plan.
   • Of course, one must know the direct trajectory to diverge from it, and one must know where the orbit is to be able to go off it.
   • But towards the end of the speech, Bacon diverges sharply from this text.
   • Our path seems destined to continue diverging from that of the Europeans.
   • The hard part is predicting where the the course of the future will diverge from the past.
   • The article he wrote diverged from the official line; it was never printed.
   • I diverged from the newspaper standard of never changing a quote.
   • Nevertheless, slang items often diverge from standard usage in predictable ways, especially by generalization and melioration.

   Synonyms

   deviate, digress, depart, veer, swerve, turn away, turn aside, branch off, drift, stray

   ramble, wander, meander, maunder

   get sidetracked, stray from the point, get off the subject

   rare divagate
3. 1.3 Develop in a different direction.
   向不同方向发展
   English Gothic architecture began to diverge from that on the Continent

   英国的哥特式建筑开始向和欧洲大陆不同的方向发展。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In this study, we assumed that humans and mice diverged 100 MYA.
   • As in the case of Hsp 70 genes, these two groups of genes diverged long before the separation of animals and fungi.
   • After bony fishes and mammals diverged about 400 MYA, class II genes increased enormously in the mammalian lineage.
   • Recently diverged species will not demonstrate reciprocal monophyly for some time after they have stopped exchanging genes.
   • So depending on how it gets handled, the stable/developer strands could diverge immediately.
   • Assume that chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor about five million years ago.
   • The hybridization occurred shortly after the two lineages diverged (old hybridization).
   • A recent further analysis reveals that the diverging development between these two groups is, in fact, even more explicit later on.
   • Arrangements in the upper line represent periods in which duplicated genes diverged.
   • Although the Alligator sequence was considerably diverged from the avian sequences, a reasonable alignment could be achieved.
   • But local infection rates and trends quickly diverged.
   • Living chimps have diverged genetically from that common ancestor about as far as people have, the researchers add.
   • However, different parts of the genome may diverge at different rates.
   • From pollen data, these are estimated to have diverged 6 MYA.
   • In the six million years since the human and ape lines first diverged, the behaviour and lifestyles of apes have hardly changed.
   • Hence the authors concluded that gene expression had diverged most rapidly in the human brain.
   • Daughter corallites generally diverge at various angles, and subsequently turn vertically and grow subparallel.
   • The element encodes a Gag protein, and retroelement Gag protein sequences diverge more rapidly than the Pol sequences.
   • As the tangents diverge, a sample of found sound enters the piece, with crowd murmur and the whine of vehicle brakes.
   • It is only after about the sixth week that male - female developments diverge.

2Mathematics
(of a series) increase indefinitely as more of its terms are added.