核心畫面
A line drawn between two things so they hang together — two people, two groups, two ideas. Once the line is there, they are 'associated': linked, and travelling together in your mind or in the world.
可以想成在兩樣東西之間拉出一條線，把它們連在一起——兩個人、兩個團體、或兩個想法。線一拉上，它們就「有了關聯」：被綁…更多收起
可以想成在兩樣東西之間拉出一條線，把它們連在一起——兩個人、兩個團體、或兩個想法。線一拉上，它們就「有了關聯」：被綁在一起、在世界裡或在你腦中一起出現。association 核心的畫面比較像「兩樣東西之間那條把它們牽起來的線」。原始詞典資料6 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。
associationnoun/əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/
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The act of associating.
- And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
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The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsAny relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
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A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
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Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
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A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
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。