connecting

1. V-RECIP If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, or if two things connect, the two things are joined together. (某物、某人) 連接 (某物); (一物與另一物) 相連

You can connect the speakers to your CD player. 你可以將這些敭聲器與你的激光唱機(jī)連接起來(lái)。

I connected the wires for the transformer. 我給變壓器接上了電線(xiàn)。

2. V-RECIP If two things or places connect or if something connects them, they are joined and people or things can pass between them. (兩物或兩地) 相連通

...the long hallway that connects the rooms. …連接這些房間的長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的過(guò)道。

A pedestrian bridge now connects the parking garage with the mall. 現(xiàn)在一座人行橋連通車(chē)庫(kù)和購(gòu)物中心。

3. V-I If one train or plane, for example, connects with another, it arrives at a time which allows passengers to change to the other one in order to continue their trip. (與火車(chē)、飛機(jī)等) 聯(lián)運(yùn)

...a train connecting with a ferry to Ireland. …一列與通往愛(ài)爾蘭的渡船聯(lián)運(yùn)的火車(chē)。

4. V-T If a piece of equipment or a place is connected to a source of power or water, it is joined to that source so that it has power or water. 將 (設(shè)備、某地與水源、電源等) 接通[usu passive]

These appliances should not be connected to power supplies. 這些裝置不應(yīng)該接通電源。

5. PHRASAL VERB Connect up means the same as . 接通

The shower is easy to install – it needs only to be connected up to the hot and cold water supply. 淋浴器很容易安裝–衹需接上冷熱水即可。

6. V-T If you connect a person or thing with something, you realize that there is a link or relationship between them. 將 (某人、某物與某事物) 聯(lián)系起來(lái)

I hoped he would not connect me with that now-embarrassing review I'd written seven years earlier. 我希望他不會(huì)把我和我7年前寫(xiě)的、現(xiàn)在讀起來(lái)令人難堪的評(píng)論聯(lián)系起來(lái)。

7. V-T Something that connects a person or thing with something else shows or provides a link or relationship between them. 顯示 (某人、某物與某事物) 有關(guān)聯(lián)

A search of Brady's house revealed nothing that could connect him with the robberies. 對(duì)佈雷迪住処的搜查沒(méi)有查出可以顯示他同這些搶劫案有關(guān)聯(lián)的任何線(xiàn)索。