名词

1. 团体；协会；社团
An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.

2. 关联；交往
Your association with a person or a thing such as an organization is the connection that you have with them.

3. 联想
If something has particular associations for you, it is connected in your mind with a particular memory, idea, or feeling.

4. 与…联合;与…合作
If you do something in association with someone else, you do it together.

5. （事物）与…在一起
If one thing is found in association with another, they are found together.

1. the act of consorting with or joining with others

e.g. you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association

2. the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

e.g. conditioning is a form of learning by association

Synonym: connectionconnexion

3. (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species

4. a formal organization of people or groups of people

e.g. he joined the Modern Language Association

5. (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding

6. a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

e.g. flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear
the host is not always injured by association with a parasite

7. a social or business relationship

e.g. a valuable financial affiliation
he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team
many close associations with England

Synonym: affiliationtietie-up

8. the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

e.g. his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break