離婚

In a sentence

• 王先生和李女士決定離婚。

  Mr. Wang and Ms. Li decided to divorce.

  Here '離婚' is used as a verb to describe the action of mutually deciding to end the marriage.

• 離婚後，張先生開始新的生活。

  After the divorce, Mr. Zhang started a new life.

  Here '離婚後' functions as a temporal phrase indicating an event occurring after the divorce, '離婚' acts as a noun in this context.

• 離婚率在一些國家逐年上升。

  The divorce rate is increasing year by year in some countries.

  Here '離婚率' incorporates '離婚' as a noun to refer to the frequency of divorces.