association
n. 协会,联盟; 关系; 联系,联想; 因果关系
An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
...the British Olympic Association...
英国奥林匹克协会
Research associations are often linked to a particular industry.
研究协会常与某个特定的行业挂钩。
Your association with a person or a thing such as an organization is the connection that you have with them.
...the company's six-year association with retailer J.C. Penney Co...
该公司与零售商 J. C. 彭尼公司6年的业务往来
Blyth's association with the sea began in 1966...
布莱思的航海生涯始于1966年。
If something has particular associations for you, it is connected in your mind with a particular memory, idea, or feeling.
He has a shelf full of things, each of which has associations for him...
他的一个搁架上摆满了东西,每一样都能勾起他许多回忆。
Black was considered inappropriate because of its associations with death.
不宜用黑色,因为它让人联想到死亡。
If you do something in association with someone else, you do it together.
Published in association with the Council for the Protection of Rural England, the book provides refreshing solutions to the long-term problem of water conservation.
这本书与英格兰乡村保护委员会合作出版,就节约水资源这个长期问题提供了全新的解决方法。
If one thing is found in association with another, they are found together.
1. a formal organization of people or groups of people;
2. the act of consorting with or joining with others;
3. the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination;
4. a social or business relationship;
5. the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination;
6. a relation resulting from interaction or dependence;
7. (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
8. (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
club, association, institute, league, union, society
这些名词均有"社团,会社,协会"之意。
The association is under the auspices of World Bank.
这个组织是在世界银行的赞助下办的.
Our long association with your company has brought great benefits.
我方和贵公司的长期合作带来了巨大的利益.
The Alumnae Association is my link to the school's present administration.
女校友协会是我和现在学校行政部门之间的纽带
At the airport he read an address of welcome in behalf of the association.
在机场上他代表该协会致了欢迎词.
They banded themselves into an association.
他们联合起来,成立一个协会.