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To fraternize is to be friendly with someone, especially when you have been ordered not to. Armies tell soldiers not to fraternize with the enemy; workplaces and schools may tell people not to fraternize across a line (boss and staff, teacher and student). It is a fairly formal verb. The old idea underneath is “to treat someone as a .” In real use, the important feeling is the broken rule, not a warm family feeling. If you only mean “chat in a friendly way” with no rule against it, a simpler verb like talk or mix is clearer.
親近、交好（尤指上級禁止時）
組成From French fraterniser. The older root is the PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr, “brother,” so the pieces point to “act like a brother.”
同家族的字
- fraternizationthe noun for the same act
- fraternalshares the stem; means like a brother
- fraternityshares the stem; a brotherhood, or a US college club
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。
fraternizeverb/ˈfɹætənaɪz/
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To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
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To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty.
- Now in this world it is never wise to meddle with such things. It's better to leave them as they are. No one ever had any good come to him from fraternizing with too great familiarity with the unknown; and it's a very good thing that the children from The Other Side are as shy as they are, as Alice found out through Evelyn Dearie.
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To socialize in confidentiality.
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To have an intimate or sexual relationship with a forbidden party.
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。