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Connection I   [Usu N Count 可数名词 Train Good Talking

英语单词 connection
英美音标 英 [kə'nekʃn] 美 [kə'nekʃn]
中文释义 n.联系;关系;连接;亲戚
英语例句 (1) What is the connection between the two ideas?
(2) There is no connection between them.
(3) Your connection with the press served out turn.
(4) I have no immediate connection with him.
(5) How long will the connection of the telephone take?
(6) He is a distant connection of my wife's.
中文例句 (1) 这两个概念之间有何联系?
(2) 他们之间没有什么关系。
(3) 你与新闻界的关系正适应了我们的需要。
(4) 我和他没有直接关系。
(5) 接通电话需要多长时间呢?
(6) 他是我妻子的一个远亲。
vocabulary简明 The word connection is good for talking about the way things relate to each other. Your special connection to your cousin might have something to do with your mutual love for science fiction and barbecue.
vocabulary扩展 A connection can be physical, like the leash that provides the connection between you and your German shepherd, or emotional, like the connection you feel with your best friend. Any kind of direct relation is a connection as well, such as the connection a detective makes between a footprint at a crime scene and a suspect's favorite pair of shoes. The root is the Latin connexionem, "a binding or joining together."
柯林斯解释
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 connexion
1
[N-VAR 可变名词]关系;联系 A connection is a relationship between two things, people, or groups.
  [usu N prep]
  • There was no evidence of a connection between BSE and the brain diseases recently confirmed in cats...

    没有证据表明疯牛病与最近确诊的猫类脑病有关联。

  • The police say he had no connection with the security forces...

    警方说他与安全部队没有关系。

  • He has denied any connection to the bombing.

    他否认与爆炸事件有任何关联。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词](电线或管道的)连接部分,接头 A connection is a joint where two wires or pipes are joined together.
  • Check all radiators for small leaks, especially round pipework connections.

    检查所有的暖气片,看有没有小裂缝,尤其是管道连接处附近。

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词](公路、铁路或空中的)交通连接,交通线 If a place has good road, rail, or air connections, many places can be directly reached from there by car, train, or plane.
  [usu n N]
  • Fukuoka has excellent air and rail connections to the rest of the country.

    福冈与国内其他城市之间有非常便捷的空运和铁路运输系统。

4
[N-COUNT 可数名词]联运;转车;转机 If you get a connection at a station or airport, you catch a train, bus, or plane, after getting off another train, bus, or plane, in order to continue your journey.
  [usu sing]
  • My flight was late and I missed the connection.

    航班晚点,我没赶上转机。

5
[N-PLURAL 复数名词]关系;人脉 Your connections are the people who you know or are related to, especially when they are in a position to help you.
  • She used her connections to full advantage.

    她充分利用了自己的人脉。

6
[PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]关于;与…有关 If you write or talk to someone in connection with something, you write or talk to them about that thing.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • I am writing in connection with Michael Shower's letter...

    关于迈克尔·肖尔的来信,现复信如下。

  • 13 men have been questioned in connection with the murder.

    有13名男子因谋杀案受到盘问。

7
[PHRASE 短语]关于这/那一点;在这/那方面 You say in this connection or in that connection to indicate that what you are talking about is related to what you have just mentioned.
  [PHR with cl]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • It is the 100th anniversary of his death. We here are having very great celebrations in this connection.

    今天是他逝世100周年纪念日,我们为此在这里举行盛大的纪念活动。

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