喜樂美語

核心畫面

Two things joined together, so that they hold to each other and one can reach or affect the other.

可以想成一條把兩樣東西接起來的線：一端接這邊、一端接那邊，於是兩者就「搭上了」——這頭動，那頭也會受影響。不管是電線…更多收起可以想成一條把兩樣東西接起來的線：一端接這邊、一端接那邊，於是兩者就「搭上了」——這頭動，那頭也會受影響。不管是電線、人和人、想法和想法，connection 講的都是「兩端被接在一起」這個畫面，差別只在接的是什麼。

Four branches

實體的接合

最貼近核心畫面的一群：真的把東西接在一起，或接上一個更大的系統、網路。

connection (link/join) · noun · B1

A join between two things, or a link to a bigger system or network.

連接、連線

交通的銜接

把「接起來」放到地理上：用車、船、飛機或道路，把兩個地方接通，讓人能在中間移動。

connection (transport route) · noun · B1

A route by road or rail along which people travel from one place to another.

交通連結、路線

抽象的關聯

把那條「接起來的線」從實體搬到腦子裡：兩件事、兩個想法之間的牽連，一個牽動或造成另一個。

connection (link between facts/ideas) · noun · B1

The way two facts, ideas, or events are linked, so that one affects or causes the other.

關聯、關係

人與人的牽連

把「線的兩端」換成人：你和某些人之間搭著線——可能是幫得上忙的有力人士，也可能是血緣上沾親帶故的遠親。

connections (useful contacts) · noun · B1

People you know who can help you, especially because they have power or important positions.

人脈、有力的關係

原始詞典資料16 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。

connectionnoun/kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/

  • 1

    The act of connecting.

    • Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding
    • At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.
  • 2

    The act of connecting.

  • 3

    The act of connecting.

    • The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.
  • 4

    The point at which two or more things are connected.

    • the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler
  • 5

    transportThe point at which two or more things are connected.

    • The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
    • It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections.
  • 6

    A physical link between two things or places.

    • the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America
  • 7

    A physical link between two things or places.

    • computers linked by a network connection
    • I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
  • 8

    A relationship or association.

    • the connection between overeating and obesity
    • My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A relationship or association.

    • These two seemed to have a closer relationship than I knew. What's their connection?
  • 10

    A relationship or association.

    • As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
  • 11

    A relationship or association.

    • in this connection
    • A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
  • 12

    A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.

    • I have some connections in Lancashire.
    • I hadn't much chance of buying a practice or dropping into a partnership worth having and I jibbed at setting up in some God-forsaken backwater and slipping into middle age 'building up a connection.'
  • 13

    A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.

    • I have connections in the local committee. I shall bring them to bear, as long as the Council does not find fault!
    • General Zhigailo also used his connections to have an officer at the academy expelled from the party because he had criticized the general's behavior.
  • 14

    slangA person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.

    • Now the final study was the drug habit. He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars.
  • 15

    mathematicssciencesA set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。