核心畫面
You can picture two or more people pulling on the same rope in the same direction: the work is not one person's and then another's, it is done together. From that one picture the word goes two ways — outward to a person who is easy to pull with (willing, not making trouble), and inward to a business that is owned by everyone who works in it, so the pulling and the reward are both shared.
可以想成幾個人一起拉同一條繩子、往同一個方向使力：這件事不是你做一半我做一半，而是「一起做」。這張圖往兩邊長：一邊長…更多收起
可以想成幾個人一起拉同一條繩子、往同一個方向使力：這件事不是你做一半我做一半，而是「一起做」。這張圖往兩邊長：一邊長成「好拉的人」——你一開口他就配合，不吵不擋；另一邊長成一種組織——店、銀行、農場由裡面所有人共同持有，力氣一起出，賺到的錢也一起分。形容詞和名詞其實共用同一張圖，只是名詞把那個「一起」凝固成了一個實體。原始詞典資料4 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。
cooperativeadj/kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/
- 1
Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate.
- The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
- Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
- 2
Involving cooperation between individuals or parties.
- a cooperative game
- a cooperative business enterprise
- 3
Relating to a cooperative or cooperatives.
cooperativenoun/kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/
- 1
A type of company that is owned partially or wholly by its employees, customers or tenants.
- The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
- Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
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。