及物动词

名词

1. 时刻；时候；时节；场合
An occasion is a time when something happens, or a case of it happening.

2. 重大活动；仪式；庆典
An occasion is an important event, ceremony, or celebration.

3. 机会；时机
An occasion for doing something is an opportunity for doing it.

4. 导致；引起；使发生
To occasion something means to cause it.

5. see also: sense of occasion

6. 有必要（做）；需要（做）
If you have occasion to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.

7. 偶尔；间或；有时
If something happens on occasion, it happens sometimes, but not very often.

8. 成功应付困难局面；关键时刻发挥作用
If you say that someone rose to the occasion, you mean that they did what was necessary to successfully overcome a difficult situation.

1. an event that occurs at a critical time

e.g. at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave
it was needed only on special occasions

Synonym: juncture

2. a vaguely specified social event

e.g. the party was quite an affair
an occasion arranged to honor the president
a seemingly endless round of social functions

Synonym: affairsocial occasionfunctionsocial function

3. reason

e.g. there was no occasion for complaint

4. an opportunity to do something

e.g. there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill

5. the time of a particular event

e.g. on the occasion of his 60th birthday