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The way two or more things are connected to each other — often used in science, , or research to talk about a relationship between causes and effects (there's a linkage between diet and heart disease). It also has a specific mechanical meaning: a system of rods or bars joined together to pass on movement, like part of a car's steering system.
連結、關聯性；(機械)連桿裝置
組成link + -age (the ending meaning 'the process or result of').
同家族的字
- linkthe base word this comes from
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。
linkagenoun/ˈlɪŋkɪdʒ/
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A mechanical device that connects things.
- A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
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A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- Far from ignoring linkages between gays and the poor and working class, I specifically made the point that they are common victims of the bureaucratic revolution.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
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biologygeneticsmedicineThe property of genes of being inherited together.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
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historicalgovernmentpoliticsA United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
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。