核心畫面
You can picture conference as a moment when people who have things to talk over are brought together into one place to confer — to carry their views together and discuss. The root picture is 'carrying ideas to the same table'; whether that table seats four or four thousand is just a matter of scale.
可以想成「把要談的人聚到同一個場子裡，一起把各自的想法端上桌來談」。核心畫面比較像「為了討論而被集合在一起」——至於…更多收起
可以想成「把要談的人聚到同一個場子裡，一起把各自的想法端上桌來談」。核心畫面比較像「為了討論而被集合在一起」——至於這桌坐四個人還是四千個人，只是規模大小的差別而已。原始詞典資料12 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。
Conferencenoun
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An autumn cultivar of the European pear Pyrus communis.
conferencenoun/ˈkɒn.f(ə.)ɹəns/
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The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
- Nor with such free and friendly conference / As he hath used of old.
- Mr. Wiley, a lawyer of some ability, was sitting in his office one day, when an elderly gentleman came in and asked to have a few words of conference with him.
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obsoleteThe act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
- helps and furtherances which […] the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford
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governmentpoliticsA multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
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academiascholarlysciencesA formal event where scientists or other scholars present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
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businessAn event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
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A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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ChristianityA voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
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ChristianityA talk or lecture, (Catholicism) especially when given as part of a retreat.
- “[…]But I do know of a man who is an expert on the topic. In fact, he gave a conference here in our church not very long ago.[…]”
- She gave a conference each evening during the retreat while Fr Dubas gave two talks during the day.
conferenceverb/ˈkɒn.f(ə.)ɹəns/
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educationTo assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
- The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.
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。