英语单词 | connection |
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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]
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.
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
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