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confer vt.授予(称号、学位等),赠与,协议 v.协商,交换意见 Many uses of the verb confer involve consulting with another person or as a group. Confer has a second use meaning "bestow," which means to award or hand over something. You can confer a medal on a winner or hero, or you can confer status through a promotion or assignment. Each year the teacher would confer the special honor of summer hamster-sitter on one responsible student. ★☆☆☆☆ 2007.1

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[kən'fə:(r)] If you gab, chat, and talk it up with someone, you have conversation, but if you're looking for input from each other as you talk, you confer, or consult, together. They had a family meeting to confer about a schedule for sharing the new laptop. Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above. 1[V-RECIP 相互动词]商谈；商议；交换意见 When you confer with someone, you discuss something with them in order to make a decision. You can also say that two people confer .   [V with n]  [pl-n V]He conferred with Hill and the others in his office...他与希尔及其他人在办公室里商议了一番。His doctors conferred by telephone and agreed that he must get away from his family for a time.诊治他的几位医生在电话里讨论了一番，一致认为他必须离开家人一段时间。2[VERB 动词]授予，赋予(权力、荣誉等) To confer something such as power or an honour on someone means to give it to them.   [V n on n]  [V n]  [FORMAL 正式]The constitution also confers large powers on Brazil's 25 constituent states...宪法还赋予巴西的25个成员州很大的权力。An honorary doctorate of law was conferred on him by Newcastle University in 1976...1976年，纽卡斯尔大学授予他荣誉法学博士学位。Never imagine that rank confers genuine authority.绝对不要幻想那个头衔会有实权。

英语单词	confer
英美音标	[kən'fə:(r)]
中文释义	vt.授予(称号、学位等),赠与,协议 v.协商,交换意见
vocab简明	If you gab, chat, and talk it up with someone, you have conversation, but if you're looking for input from each other as you talk, you confer, or consult, together. They had a family meeting to confer about a schedule for sharing the new laptop.
vocab扩展	Many uses of the verb confer involve consulting with another person or as a group. Confer has a second use meaning "bestow," which means to award or hand over something. You can confer a medal on a winner or hero, or you can confer status through a promotion or assignment. Each year the teacher would confer the special honor of summer hamster-sitter on one responsible student.
真题原句	Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above.
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [V-RECIP 相互动词]商谈；商议；交换意见 When you confer with someone, you discuss something with them in order to make a decision. You can also say that two people confer . [V with n] [pl-n V] He conferred with Hill and the others in his office... 他与希尔及其他人在办公室里商议了一番。 His doctors conferred by telephone and agreed that he must get away from his family for a time. 诊治他的几位医生在电话里讨论了一番，一致认为他必须离开家人一段时间。 2 [VERB 动词]授予，赋予(权力、荣誉等) To confer something such as power or an honour on someone means to give it to them. [V n on n] [V n] [FORMAL 正式] The constitution also confers large powers on Brazil's 25 constituent states... 宪法还赋予巴西的25个成员州很大的权力。 An honorary doctorate of law was conferred on him by Newcastle University in 1976... 1976年，纽卡斯尔大学授予他荣誉法学博士学位。 Never imagine that rank confers genuine authority. 绝对不要幻想那个头衔会有实权。
来源	2007.1

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