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A symposium is a formal meeting where experts come together to give talks and discuss a topic, usually academic or scientific. It's a word than just 'meeting' or 'conference' - you'd expect a symposium to feel serious, with speeches and papers being presented, not casual chatting. The word actually started out meaning something completely different: in ancient Greece, a symposium was a drinking party where men would eat, drink wine, and talk about philosophy and ideas together.
研討會、座談會
組成It comes from Greek 'syn-' (together) and a root related to drinking - the ancient Greek symposium was originally a 'drinking-together' party.
原始詞典資料3 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。
symposiumnoun/sɪmˈpəʊziəm/
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A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
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A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
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A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
- THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.
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。