Syndicate
['sɪndɪkət]
解释:
(noun.) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.
(noun.) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication.
(verb.) sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations.
(verb.) organize into or form a syndicate.
(verb.) join together into a syndicate; 'The banks syndicated'.
戴维录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
(n.) An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.
(v. t.) To judge; to censure.
艾娜录入
娱乐性解释：
A conspiracy to extend the modest business established by Captain Kidd.
校对:马里恩
例句:
- But I am sure that it will interest Mr. Horace Harker and the subscribers of the Central Press Syndicate. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The first permanent Edison station in Europe was that at Milan, Italy, for which the order was given as early as May, 1882, by an enterprising syndicate. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Clearly he could not drive a tram without belonging to the syndicate. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He was a member of the syndicate of tramway drivers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- A short time after that a syndicate took up a man named Goebel and tried to do the same thing, but again our detective-work was too much for them. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He was introduced to us as the owner of the house--Mr. Horace Harker, of the Central Press Syndicate. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
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