英语词汇“collocation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

collocation

/kɒləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n

noun [mass noun]

1 Linguistics The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance: the words have a similar range of collocation...

If the substituted words have relevant meanings, so much the better; and if the original collocation is archaic or otherwise non-compositional, that improves the chances still further.
This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation.
Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front.

1.1 [count noun] A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed: ‘strong tea’ and ‘heavy drinker’ are typical English collocations...

The collocations go to church/school/college and be at church/school/college are shared, but go to university/be at university and go to hospital/be in hospital are BrE, AmE requiring the as in go to the university.
For example, he invites us to ‘consider the number of collocations like ‘by and large’ that we use with no discernible compositional rationale.’
He has smoothed out a whole range of peculiar collocations and syntactical anomalies in order to make the translation flow.

2The action of placing things side by side or in position: the collocation of the two pieces...

Despite the legal prohibition, Army plans already have included such collocation of women-men units in blueprints for a lighter force of 10 active divisions, according to Defense Department sources.
What is the highest compliment payable to a stout, 800-page collocation of investigative articles, cultural and literary essays, think pieces, and random philosophical noodling?
He defines style as involving the latter two of his three processes of expression-the collocation of words into sentences and the construction of rhetorical figures.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin collocatio(n-), from collocare 'place together' (see collocate).

单词	collocation
释义	collocation /kɒləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] 1 Linguistics The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance: the words have a similar range of collocation... If the substituted words have relevant meanings, so much the better; and if the original collocation is archaic or otherwise non-compositional, that improves the chances still further. This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation. Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front. 1.1 [count noun] A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed: ‘strong tea’ and ‘heavy drinker’ are typical English collocations... The collocations go to church/school/college and be at church/school/college are shared, but go to university/be at university and go to hospital/be in hospital are BrE, AmE requiring the as in go to the university. For example, he invites us to ‘consider the number of collocations like ‘by and large’ that we use with no discernible compositional rationale.’ He has smoothed out a whole range of peculiar collocations and syntactical anomalies in order to make the translation flow. 2The action of placing things side by side or in position: the collocation of the two pieces... Despite the legal prohibition, Army plans already have included such collocation of women-men units in blueprints for a lighter force of 10 active divisions, according to Defense Department sources. What is the highest compliment payable to a stout, 800-page collocation of investigative articles, cultural and literary essays, think pieces, and random philosophical noodling? He defines style as involving the latter two of his three processes of expression-the collocation of words into sentences and the construction of rhetorical figures. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin collocatio(n-), from collocare 'place together' (see collocate).
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