首页英语词典meetingmeeting的意思

meeting

英 ['miːtɪŋ] 美['mitɪŋ]

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近义词council

n. 会议；会见；集会；汇合点
v. 会面；会合（meet的ing形式）

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复数: meetings;

中文词源

meeting 会议

来自meet,见面，集会，-ing,动名词。引申词义开会，会议。

英英释意

1. a formally arranged gathering;: "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson"

2. the social act of assembling for some common purpose;: "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"

3. a small informal social gathering;: "there was an informal meeting in my livingroom"

4. a casual or unexpected convergence;: "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"

5. the act of joining together as one;: "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds"

6. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers);: "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"

英文词源

meeting (n.): "action of coming together," Old English gemeting, verbal noun from meet (v.). Meaning "gathering of people for discussion, etc." is from 1510s. In 17c., it was applied generally to worship assemblies of nonconformists, but this now is retained mostly by Quakers.

同义词辨析

conference, congress, assembly, meeting, rally, council, session, convention, gathering

这些名词均含有"会，会议"之意。

conference：正式用词，一般指大型会议，如政府工作会议、国际学术交流会议、各国之间的协商、会谈等。

congress：指国会、议会、代表大会等机构，尤指经选举产生的国家立法机构的大会或由这些机构召开的大会，也可指专业人员代表大会。

assembly：多指一个通常有许多人参加、计划好的，为某一特殊目的而召集的会议。

meeting：普通用词，词义广泛。指一般性的会议，可用于任何场合。

rally：指大规模的群众性政治集会。

council：在国际上多指由各国代表参加的政治会议，或常设的政治机构。在国内、地方上，此词多指常设的政务领导机构，如市政委员会等。

session：一般指议会等召开的正式会议。

convention：侧重指某一政党或团体为某一特殊目的而召开的会议；也可指学术团体的年会。

gathering：指两人以上的聚会或集会，强调非正式性。

考试真题

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.

I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic ( ' , 官僚的) mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.

Cutting down meetings and encouraging administrative staff to go to classrooms.

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

F) For sociable souls, meeting new people by staying in their homes is part of the charm.

Meetings at resorts are suddenly unacceptable.

I'm supposed to be at a meeting from 3:00 to 6:00, but how about leaving it with my secretary?

She had to attend an important meeting

Your first meeting is on Monday the 21st at 9:00 a.

You're meeting him at his office and then he's taking you somewhere

The weekly school meeting is at the center of the way sun school is orgnized

The most import advantage of the school meeting is that it shows the children that the school is really their's

He's tight up in meetings all morning

Participating in these meetings gives children an understand of democratic decision making and helps them develops their skills of argument and persuasion

He has got meetings to attend.

Salary, promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting.

As the new sales director for a national computer firm, Alex Gordon was looking forward to his first meeting with the company's district managers.

He decided to end the meeting with the conversation about the importance of the district managers to the company's plans

Who did Alex Gordon speak to at the first meeting?

What do we learn about the audience at the meeting

But anyway, I'll send him an email to request a meeting, and we'll see what happens from there.

I for one try not to miss a single weekly meeting of my knitting group.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

They are reportedly meeting with lawyers to see how best to take the business forward.

Venice's deadline passed with barely a murmur this summer, just as UNESCO was meeting in Istanbul.

We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

You made day dream about meeting your life partner, or living in a big house by the sea.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

A year on, the meetings have made lasting changes to what she throws away in her kitchen.

This level of wastage is a tragedy that cannot continue if we are to succeed in the challenge of sustainably meeting our future food demands.

Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance

If you're away on a trip, you can still attend a meeting.

This is the undercurrent of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year.

The state recognizes this in the large body of family laws that govern children' welfare, yet parents receive little help in meeting the life-changing obligations society imposes.

Liz, I just found out I have a meeting and I can't pick up the kids after their soccer practice.

He will be attending a meeting

Town meetings called to discuss the problem inevitably dissolved into confrontations.

They've called a special meeting at work.

Salary, promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting.

He made a stupid decision at the cabinet meeting

At office meetings and in group discussions, they might speak up more often, express strong opinions and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues.

What might women do at office meetings nowadays according to the speaker

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

Through regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting, individual farm visits and thousands of phone calls, the Amburghs pass on the principles of pasture management.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

After that, feeling the need to explore further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings.

After that, I'll have a meeting with him over lunch.

After the meetings, you will have some time for afternoon tea.

Afterwards, she and her father secured their first business meeting with a supermarket owner, who finally agreed to sell Moore's product—cancandy.

And I even joined the local fishing club and started attending the monthly meetings.

And the meetings, when do they begin?

Anna just emailed to say that the managers' meeting is put off till next Monday.

As you may know already, it's a required meeting once a week.

For many of them, it's a way of meeting people and having a social life.

Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan, about queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings with twelve prime ministers in the course of sixty years.

Her library used to be a meeting place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge.

I need to be in my office in fifteen minutes, or I'll be late for a meeting.

I then made it a point to attend those meetings and learn all I could.

I was watching the clock all through the meeting, as I had a train to catch.

If you're meeting with the professor to go over a paper or test, or to ask questions about a particular lecture or reading, make sure you bring that paper or test, or your lecture notes or a copy of the article.

It's almost never good to start a meeting with general comments such as:"I didn't understand what you said about [main topic of the course] "or "I couldn't understand any of your lectures last week."

Jane can't attend the meeting at 3 o'clock this afternoon because she will be teaching a class at that time.

Jenkins needs it for the board meeting next Monday.

Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves setting up an on-going, timetable process of circle-meeting for adults and children.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

Next is the basketball club meeting.

Office hours almost always go better if you bring a few specific questions to the meeting.

Ok, but I have a meeting that morning.

On the last day of our week-long stay, we were invited to attend a private concert on a beautiful farm on the north shore under the stars, listening to musicians and meeting interesting locals.

Such activities fill the spaces that used to be dead time such as waiting for somebody to arrive for a lunch meeting.

Teresa posted a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website accompanied by the touching words: ＂what a blessing this young man was to our family! he was so sweet and kind to do this.

The basketball club meeting is on the 17th.

The meeting will be held in september, but nobody knows the date for sure.

The meetings will start at 10:00 am, and end at 3:00 pm, with a short lunch break.

This meeting room is a non-smoking area.

This type of integrity requires well-enforced laws in government transparency, such as records of official meetings, rules on lobbying, and information about each elected leader’s source of wealth.

Officials must not be allowed to play favorites in providing information or in arranging meetings simply because an individual or group provides a campaign donation or a personal gift.

"Once on the calendar I protect this time like I would a doctor's appointment or important meeting", he writes.

It will hold another meeting soon.

Once on the calendar I protect this time like I would a doctor's appointment or important meeting, he writes.

simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an "official act".

Some people like small talk in a meeting before digging into important matters, while other are more straightforward.

The heightened alert followed an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising numbers in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.

词组搭配

a meeting of minds

an understanding or agreement between people

相互理解；意见一致

meeting of the minds

Agreement; concord.

协议；亲善协约

实用场景例句

to have/hold/call/attend a meeting: 召开 / 举办 / 召集 / 参加会议

a committee/staff meeting: 委员会 / 员工会议

What time is the meeting?: 什么时候开会？

Helen will chair the meeting (= be in charge of it) .: 海伦将主持这次会议。

I'll be in a meeting all morning─can you take my calls?: 我一上午都要开会——你能不能帮我接一下电话？

a meeting of the United Nations Security Council: 联合国安理会会议

The meeting voted to accept the pay offer.: 与会者投票接受这一工资提议。

At our first meeting I was nervous.: 我们第一次见面时我很紧张。

It was a chance meeting that would change my life.: 那次偶然的会面改变了我的一生。

He remembered their childhood meetings with nostalgia.: 他怀念地回忆起他们孩提时代的聚会。

an athletics meeting: 运动会

a race meeting: 赛马大会

Can we have a meeting to discuss that?: 我们可以开会来讨论那件事吗？

...business meetings.: 商业会议

In January, 37 years after our first meeting, I was back in the studio with Denis...: 那是1月，在我们初次相遇37年之后，我和丹尼斯一同回到了工作室。

Her life was changed by a chance meeting with her former art master a few years ago.: 她的生活因几年前同她以前的美术老师的偶遇改变了。

Get me confirmation on the first available flight.: 替我确定最优先的班机.

He stated his views on the question at the meeting.: 他在会上阐明了自己对这个问题的看法.

The time appointed for the meeting was ten o'clock.: 约定的开会时间是十点.

The chairman stepped up and declared the meeting open.: 主席登上讲台,宣布开会.

The chairman called the meeting to order.: 主席宣布开始开会.

Don't leave when the meeting is in progress.: 开会不要中途退场.

The praesidium has decided to hold this evening's meeting elsewhere.: 主席团决定今天晚上的会议另选会场.

The meeting seemed to be endless, but I extricated myself by saying I had to catch a plane.: 会议好象没完没了, 不过我说我得赶飞机,才得以脱身.

The meeting was prolonged into the evening.: 会议一直拖到晚上.

The chief engineer is very busy and can't be in attendance at today's meeting.: 总工程师太忙了,不能出席今天的会议.

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