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 聯想；聯系 - associate somebody/something with somebody/something
I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood. 一聞到烘烤食物的味道，我就想起了童年。 He is closely associated in the public mind with horror movies. 在公衆的心目中，他總是和恐怖電影緊密聯系在一起。 Most people immediately associate addictions with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. 大多數人會立即將上瘾與毒品、酒精和香煙聯系起來。 - associate somebody/something
You wouldn’t normally associate these two writers—their styles are completely different. 通常不會把這兩位作家相提並論--他們兩人的風格完全不同。
- 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). 我贊同首相所言。 I have never associated myself with political extremism. 我從來不贊同政治上的極端主義。
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’.