喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture two sides who stay separate but agree to stand together: each keeps its own name and its own house, and yet from now on an attack on one is a problem for both. That is different from merging — nobody disappears. English uses it for countries, for organisations, and, in an older formal way, for two families joined by a marriage.

可以想成：兩方各自站著，但講好要站在一起——各自保有自己的名字和地盤，可是從今天起，動了其中一個就等於動了兩個。這跟…更多收起可以想成：兩方各自站著，但講好要站在一起——各自保有自己的名字和地盤，可是從今天起，動了其中一個就等於動了兩個。這跟「合併」不一樣：沒有人消失。英文把這個關係用在國家、用在組織，也用在比較舊、比較正式的說法裡——兩個家族因為一樁婚事而結合。

From the picture

婚姻帶來的家族結合

同樣是兩方各自獨立、卻綁在一起，只是把國家換成家族，把條約換成一樁婚事。

marriage alliance · noun · C2

A close relationship between people, especially a marriage that joins two families together.

聯姻 / 結親

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agreement to cooperate · noun · C2

An agreement between two or more countries, groups, or people to work together to reach a shared goal.

聯盟 / 結盟

the allied group · noun · C2

A group of countries, teams, or organizations that have joined together to achieve something.

聯盟（團體）

原始詞典資料18 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Alliancename

  • 1

    A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.

  • 2

    An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.

  • 3

    A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.

  • 4

    A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.

  • 5

    A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.

  • 6

    A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.

  • 7

    A village in central Alberta, Canada.

  • 8

    A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    historicalgovernmentpoliticsThe alliance in the 1980s between the SDP and the Liberal Party, precursor of the Liberal Democrats.

alliancenoun/əˈlaɪ.əns/

  • 1

    The state of being allied.

  • 2

    The act of allying or uniting.

  • 3

    A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

    • matrimonial alliances
    • an alliance between church and state, or welded by two countries
  • 4

    datedA union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

  • 5

    Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

    • And as for kindred , there is no Alliance neerer vnto any one, than their Countrey , that is to be vnto vs another God, and our prime and deareſt Parent.
    • the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
  • 6

    The persons or parties allied.

  • 7

    datedbiologynatural-sciencestaxonomySynonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).

allianceverb/əˈlaɪ.əns/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。