把自己和某人綁在一起
繫的那一端換成你自己：跟誰站在一起、跟誰來往，別人就會把你們算成一組。
associate with, keep company · verb · C1
To spend time with a person or group, often one that others do not approve of.
來往；交往
核心畫面
Picture two things tied together with a short piece of string: pull one and the other comes along. Associate is that tying. Tie two ideas in your head and one reminds you of the other; tie yourself to a person and you are seen together; tie someone to an organisation only loosely and they become an associate member — attached, but not fully inside.
可以想成：兩樣東西被一小段繩子繫在一起，拉動其中一個，另一個就跟著過來。associate 就是這個「繫起來」的動作…更多收起
可以想成：兩樣東西被一小段繩子繫在一起，拉動其中一個，另一個就跟著過來。associate 就是這個「繫起來」的動作。把兩個概念繫在腦中，想到一個就想到另一個；把自己和某個人繫在一起，別人就會把你們看成一夥；如果一個人和組織之間只繫著一條鬆鬆的線，他就是 associate member——有連著，但沒有完全進到裡面。From the picture
只連著、還沒進到裡面
繩子還在，但繫得鬆：這個人和組織有關係，卻不具備正式成員的完整權利。
associate, junior rank · adjective · C1
Used to describe someone who is a member, director, etc. at a lower level, with fewer rights than a full one.
副的；準（會員）的
Also in this word
associate, mentally link · verb · C1
To connect two things, people, or ideas in your mind, so that thinking of one makes you think of the other.
聯想；把…連在一起
be associated with · verb · C1
To be connected with or related to a particular subject, activity, or situation.
與…有關聯
原始詞典資料20 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。
Associatenoun
- 1
slangAn associate's degree.
associateadj詞源 1/əˈsəʊʃi.ət/
- 1
Joined with another or others and having lower status.
- The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
- 2
Having partial status or privileges.
- He is an associate member of the club.
- 3
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
- 4
datedbiologynatural-sciencesConnected by habit or sympathy.
- associate motions
- These associate ideas are gradually formed into habits of acting together, by frequent repetition, while they are yet separately obedient to the will; as is evident from the difficulty we experience in gaining so exact an idea of the front of St. Paul's church, as to be able to delineate it with accuracy, or in recollecting a poem of a few pages.
associatenoun詞源 2/əˈsəʊʃi.ət/
- 1
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
- Allow me to introduce my business associates, Alice and Bob, who are senior VPs for ops and strategy, respectively.
- Associates must wash hands before returning to work
- 2
Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- 3
A companion; a comrade.
- 4
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- 5
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- 6
algebramathematicssciencesOne of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- 7
A casual friend, acquaintance
associateverb詞源 3/əˈsəʊʃieɪt/
- 1
To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- 2
To spend time socially; keep company.
- She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
- Before the race he associated only with other skiers.
- 3
To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- He associated his name with many environmental causes.
- 4
To connect or join together; combine.
- particles of gold associated with other substances
- 5
To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
- He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
- 6
To endorse.
- She refused to associate herself with the petition.
- Mr. President, I rise to associate myself with the remarks of my senior Senator from Louisiana who has led this fight successfully for many years
- 7
mathematicssciencesTo be associative.
- 8
obsoleteTo accompany; to be in the company of.
- Friends should associate friends in grief and woe
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。