associate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they associate | |
| he / she / it associates | |
| past simple associated | |
| past participle associated | |
| -ing form associating |
- [transitive]
to make a connection between people or things in your mind 联想；联系 - associate somebody/something with somebody/something
I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood. 一闻到烘烤食物的味道，我就想起了童年。 He is closely associated in the public mind with horror movies. 在公众的心目中，他总是和恐怖电影紧密联系在一起。 Most people immediately associate addictions with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. 大多数人会立即将上瘾与毒品、酒精和香烟联系起来。 - associate somebody/something
You wouldn’t normally associate these two writers—their styles are completely different. 通常不会把这两位作家相提并论--他们两人的风格完全不同。
- associate somebody/something with somebody/something
- [intransitive] associate with somebody
to spend time with somebody, especially a person or people that somebody else does not approve of 交往；（尤指）混在一起 - [transitive] associate yourself with something (formal)
to show that you support or agree with something 表明支持；表示同意 I associate myself with the prime minister's remarks (= I agree with them). 我赞同首相所言。 I have never associated myself with political extremism. 我从来不赞同政治上的极端主义。
opposite dissociate
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘join with in a common purpose’; as an adjective in the sense ‘allied’): from Latin associat- ‘joined’, from the verb associare, from ad- ‘to’ + socius ‘sharing, allied’.