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名词接触; 触点; [医]（传染病）接触人; 门路

及物动词使接触; 与…联系; 与…通讯（或通话）

不及物动词联系，接触

1. (尤指经常性的)联系，联络
Contact involves meeting or communicating with someone, especially regularly.

e.g. Opposition leaders are denying any contact with the government in Kabul...
反对派领袖否认与喀布尔政府有任何联系。
e.g. He forbade contacts between directors and executives outside his presence.
他禁止董事与管理层绕开他私下进行任何联系。

2. 保持联系;有联系
If you are in contact with someone, you regularly meet them or communicate with them.

e.g. He was in direct contact with the kidnappers...
他与绑架者有直接联系。
e.g. We do keep in contact.
我们确实保持着联系。

3. 联系;联络
If you contact someone, you telephone them, write to them, or go to see them in order to tell or ask them something.

e.g. Contact the Tourist Information Bureau for further details...
详情请洽旅游信息处。
e.g. When she first contacted me Frances was upset.
弗朗西丝第一次与我联系时很心烦意乱。

4. (信息、电话号码等)供联系的，供联络的
Your contact details or number are information such as a telephone number where you can be contacted.

e.g. You must leave your full name and contact details when you phone.
打电话时须留下全名与联络信息。

5. 接触;遇见
If you come into contact with someone or something, you meet that person or thing in the course of your work or other activities.

e.g. Doctors I came into contact with voiced their concern...
我接触到的医生都表示了他们的担心。
e.g. The college has brought me into contact with western ideas.
上大学使我接触了西方的思想。

6. 与…联络;和…取得联系
If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.

e.g. Then, after she had become famous, he tried to make contact with her.
后来，她出名之后，他曾试图与她联系。

7. 与…失去联系;与…断了联系
If you lose contact with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them.

e.g. Though they all live nearby, I lost contact with them really quickly...
虽然他们都住在附近，但我很快与他们失去了联系。
e.g. Mother and son lost contact when Nicholas was in his early twenties.
尼古拉斯20岁出头的时候母子就失去了联系。

8. 触碰;接触
When people or things are in contact, they are touching each other.

e.g. They compared how these organisms behaved when left in contact with different materials...
他们比较了与不同材料接触时这些生物体的反应。
e.g. The cry occurs when air is brought into contact with the baby's larynx...
婴儿的喉咙接触到空气时，就会哭出来。

9. (无线电)联络，通信
Radio contact is communication by means of radio.

e.g. He failed to make radio contact.
他未能进行无线电联络。
e.g. ...a technical problem reported by the pilot moments before he lost contact with the control tower.
飞行员与控制塔失去联络前不久报告的技术故障

10. 熟人;有用的社会关系
A contact is someone you know in an organization or profession who helps you or gives you information.

e.g. Their contact in the United States Embassy was called Phil.
他们在美国大使馆的熟人叫菲尔。

11. to make eye contact - see eye

名词储备; 保留; 保护区; 替补队员

及物动词储备; 保留; 预约

不及物动词预订

形容词保留的; 预备的

1. 保留;留出;预留
If something is reserved for a particular person or purpose, it is kept specially for that person or purpose.

e.g. A double room with a balcony overlooking the sea had been reserved for him...
特地为他预留了一间带阳台的海景双人房。
e.g. In the United States lanes are reserved for cars with more than one occupant.
在美国，多人乘坐的汽车有专行道。

2. 预订;保留;预约
If you reserve something such as a table, ticket, or magazine, you arrange for it to be kept specially for you, rather than sold or given to someone else.

e.g. I'll reserve a table for five...
我要预订一张5人的桌子。
e.g. Demand will be huge, so ask your newsagent to reserve your copy today.
需求量会很大，所以今天得请卖报摊主为你预留出你那份。

3. 储备;储存物资;储藏量
A reserve is a supply of something that is available for use when it is needed.

e.g. The Gulf has 65 per cent of the world's oil reserves...
海湾地区拥有全世界65％的石油储藏。
e.g. A friend can be a reserve of help in times of trouble.
朋友可以在困难的时候提供帮助。

4. 预备队员;替补队员
In sports, a reserve is someone who is available to play as part of a team if one of the members is ill or cannot play.

e.g. He ended up as a reserve, but still qualified for a team gold medal.
他最后成了替补队员，但仍有资格获得团体金牌。

名词保留; 预订，预约; 保留地，专用地

1. 保留意见;疑义
If you have reservations about something, you are not sure that it is entirely good or right.

e.g. I told him my main reservation about his film was the ending...
我告诉他我主要是对他电影的结尾有保留意见。
e.g. After three days, the strikers' demands were met almost without reservation.
3天以后，罢工人员的要求几乎全部得到了满足。

2. 预订;预约
If you make a reservation, you arrange for something such as a table in a restaurant or a room in a hotel to be kept for you.

e.g. He went to the desk to make a reservation...
他到服务台进行了预订。
e.g. Accommodation is restricted so a reservation is essential.
铺位有限，所以有必要进行预订。

3. 保留地;居留地
A reservation is an area of land that is kept separate for a particular group of people to live in.

e.g. Seventeen thousand Indians live in Arizona on a reservation.
1.7万印第安人生活在亚利桑那州的保留地。

4. see also: central reservation

及物/不及物动词等待; 等候; （尤指长期地）希望; 盼望

不及物动词准备妥; 在手边; 可得到; 可使用

及物动词推迟，搁置，延缓

1. 等待;等候
When you wait for something or someone, you spend some time doing very little, because you cannot act until that thing happens or that person arrives.

e.g. I walk to a street corner and wait for the school bus...
我走到街角等校车。
e.g. Stop waiting for things to happen. Make them happen...
不要坐等事情发生。要创造条件让它们发生。

名词有效; 有益; 可利用性; 可得到的东西（或人）