Company
['kʌmp(ə)nɪ] or ['kʌmpəni]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an institution created to conduct business; 'he only invests in large well-established companies'; 'he started the company in his garage'.
(noun.) a unit of firefighters including their equipment; 'a hook-and-ladder company'.
(noun.) a social gathering of guests or companions; 'the house was filled with company when I arrived'.
(noun.) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); 'the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel'.
(noun.) small military unit; usually two or three platoons.
(noun.) the state of being with someone; 'he missed their company'; 'he enjoyed the society of his friends'.
(verb.) be a companion to somebody.
校對:奥利弗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
(n.) A companion or companions.
(n.) An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
(n.) Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
(n.) Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
(n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
(n.) Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
(n.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
(n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
(n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
(v. t.) To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
(v. i.) To associate.
(v. i.) To be a gay companion.
(v. i.) To have sexual commerce.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Assemblage, assembly, body, gathering, group, circle, troop, crew, gang, set, concourse, congregation.[2]. Party, meeting of friends, social meeting.[3]. Visitor, visitors, guests.[4]. Fellowship, companionship, society.[5]. Corporation, association, partnership, copartnership, firm, house, joint concern.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Aggregation, association, union, sodality, order, fraternity, guild,corporation, society, community, assemblage, assembly, crew, posse, gang,troop, audience, congregation, concourse
ANT:Rivalry, opposition, disqualification, antagonism, counteragency, competition,counterassociation
編輯:帕梅拉
解釋/意思:
n. any assembly of persons: a number of persons associated together for trade &c.: a society: a subdivision of a regiment: the crew of a ship: state of being a companion: fellowship: associates: society: a gathering of people for social intercourse.—v.t. to accompany.—v.i. to associate.—Be good or bad company to have or to lack companionable qualities; Keep company to associate with: to court; Know a man by his company to determine his character by the quality of his friends.
編輯:耶鲁
例句/造句/用法:
- I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- There is _one_ person in company who does not like to have Miss Price spoken of. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- They said little more; but were company to one another in silently pursuing the same subjects, and did not part until midnight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He does not flatter women, but he is patient with them, and he seems to be easy in their presence, and to find their company genial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She was built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, of Philadelphia, was launched Oct. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Will you promise to sit up with me to bear me company? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Didn't Miss Crawley remark it, who has lived in the best company in Europe? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Such companies, therefore, commonly draw to themselves much greater stocks, than any private copartnery can boast of. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- On the 22d Colonel Rodney Mason surrendered Clarksville with six companies of his regiment. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The Chartered Gas Company, established by Mr. Winsor's persevering efforts, has served as the guiding star to all other gas companies in the world. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mark for troops on foot by companies, like this, see? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Other great companies in different parts of the country soon followed with the same general system. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Such companies, whether regulated or joint-stock, sometimes have, and sometimes have not, exclusive privileges. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When within a square of the plaza this small command, ten companies in all, was brought to a halt. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They proved of use, and the same man started a service among the express companies. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
整理:华莱士