单词 | attach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | attachat‧tach /əˈtætʃ/ ●●● S2 W2 AWL verb Word Origin WORD ORIGINattach Verb TableOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French atachier, estachier, from estache ‘sharp post’VERB TABLE attach
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THESAURUS► fasten Collocations to join together the two sides of a piece of clothing, bag, belt etc: · He fastened the necklace behind her neck. ► attach to fasten something firmly to another object or surface, using screws, nails, tape, glue etc: · The boards were attached with screws.· The prisoner was attached to the wall with chains. ► join to connect or fasten things together: · Join the pieces using a strong glue ► glue to join things together using glue: · Glue the fabric to the white card. ► tape to fasten something using tape: · The students’ name cards were taped to the table. ► staple to fasten something using staples (=a small piece of wire that is pressed through paper using a special machine): · Don’t staple your résumé to your cover letter. ► clip to fasten things together using a clip (=a small metal object): · A photo was clipped to the letter. ► tie to fasten a tie, shoelaces etc by making a knot: · Don’t forget to tie your shoelaces! ► do something up especially British English to fasten a piece of clothing or the buttons etc on it: · The teacher doesn’t have time to do up every child’s coat.· Let me do it up for you. ► button (up) to fasten a shirt, coat etc with buttons: · His shirt was buttoned right to the top. ► zip (up) to fasten a piece of clothing, a bag etc with a zip: · Zip up your jacket, it’s cold. ► buckle (up) to fasten a seat belt, belt, shoe etc that has a buckle (=small metal object that fits through a hole in a strap): · The little girl struggled to buckle her shoes. ► unfasten/untie/undo/unbutton/unzip to open something that is fastened: · Do not unfasten your seat belt until the car has stopped completely. to join things together► join to make two things come together and stay in that position. Join is used about fixing two things together permanently, so that they form a single thing: · Doctors used a metal rod to join the two pieces of bone together. ► attach to join one thing to another, so that it stays in position. Attach is often used when you can separate the two things later: · She attached the photo to the letter with a paper clip.· The boards are attached with nails.· On the wall, attached with adhesive tape, was a New York City subway map. ► connect (also connect up) to join pieces of equipment together, especially with a wire or pipe, so that electricity, gas, water etc can pass from one to another: · Have you connected up the speakers to the stereo?· The hoses that connect the radiator to the engine are leaking. ► link (also link up) to connect machines, systems, computers etc, so that electronic signals can pass from one to another: · All the office PCs are linked to the main server. Longman Language Activatorto attach one thing to another so that it stays in position► attach to join one thing to another, especially something larger, using glue, string, wires etc to keep it there: · Get your receipt, attach it, and send it in .attach something to something: · A copy of my resumé is attached to this letter.· The doctor will attach a monitor to your stomach so that she can listen to the baby's heart. ► fasten to attach one thing to another firmly, but in a way that makes it easy to remove again: · Passengers should keep their seat belts fastened until the warning light is extinguished.fasten something to something: · Christine fastened the brooch to her dress.· Make sure the wires are properly fastened to the unit.fasten something on/around/over etc: · Divers fasten weights around their waists to help them stay under water.· She fastened her broad hat beneath her chin. ► fix British to attach one thing to another so that it will stay permanently in this position, for example by using nails, screws, or strong glue: fix something to something: · He fixed the lamp to the wall above the bed with a couple of screws.· I don't think it's fixed to the ceiling very securely.fix something on something: · I tried to fix them on the door, but they wouldn't stay. ► nail to attach one thing to another using nails: nail something to something: · A large American flag is nailed to the wall above the bed.· The desks in all the classrooms were nailed to the floor.nail something on/together/down etc: · We watched as Dad nailed the fence panels together.· I got a hammer and nailed down the floorboards.· The windows had been nailed shut. ► pin to attach something using a pin , especially to your clothes: pin something to: · He had pinned a red rose to his jacket.· Each delegate wore a name tag pinned to their lapel. pin something on/up/together etc: · One of the straps was pinned in place with two safety pins.· A note was pinned on the door of his office. to attach something to a wall etc, especially so that it can be seen► put up to attach something to a wall, such as a picture or notice, so that it can be seen: put something up: · Sarah had put posters up all around her room.· Shall I put it up opposite the mirror?put up something: · Someone's put up a notice in the library offering childcare for $11 an hour.· We want to put up an art display at the end of the year to show off the students' work. ► hang to attach something to a wall, tree etc so that it can be seen, especially by using string or wire: · Where do you think we should hang it?hang something on: · When are we going to hang the lights on the Christmas tree, Mommy?hang up something/hang something up: · The children are hanging up the decorations for the party.· She hung it up on the bulletin board in the staff room. email► email also e-mail electronic mail; the system that allows people to send messages and documents to each other by computer, or a message or file that has been sent using this system: · Email has revolutionized the way we all think and work.email address: · Give me your email address and I'll send you directions to the party.send an email: · I sent him an email two weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything back. ► email also e-mail to send someone a message or a computer file by email: · We'd been emailing each other for six months before we actually met.email somebody something: · I'll email you my résumé when I get home. ► snailmail the traditional system of collecting and delivering letters, packages etc - use this when you are comparing this system to email: · Sorry about the snailmail - my email's not working. ► mailing list a discussion group on the Internet, which consists of a list of people who can each send messages to the rest of the list by email ► attachment a document or file, for example a document from a word processor or spreadsheet, which is sent with an email so that it can be read and used by the person who receives the email: · I'm sending the document as an attachment. Please let me know if you have trouble reading it. ► attach to connect a document or a file to an email: · I've attached the latest spreadsheet for you to look at. ► flame to send someone a message that criticizes them on the Internet, especially in a rude or angry way: · Flaming your boss really isn't a good idea, however angry you are. ► spam email messages that a computer user has not asked for and does not want to read, for example, messages from advertisers: · I was getting so much spam mail that I changed my email address. ► bounce if an email message that you send bounces or is bounced , it is automatically returned to you because of a technical problem: · She tried to mail him several times but the message always bounced. without any conditions► unconditional: unconditional surrender/release/agreement etc an agreement or offer that is unconditional is made without any conditions: · The general said he would fight on until the enemy agreed to an unconditional surrender.· They are campaigning for the unconditional release of all political prisoners. ► no strings attached if you offer something or ask for something with no strings attached , you offer it or ask for it without stating any conditions and without trying to get an advantage for yourself: · Emergency food aid should be given with no strings attached.· Before you accept the loan you'd better make sure that there are no strings attached. to join two things together with wire, glue etc► join to join two things together, for example by using glue or a piece of wood or metal: · Join the two pieces of wood using a strong glue.join something together: · Doctors had to use a metal rod to join the two pieces of bone together.· Join the sleeve and the shoulder parts together. ► attach to join one thing to another, so that it stays in position but can be removed later: attach something to something: · It took a couple of minutes to attach the trailer to the back of the truck.· The doctor attached a tiny monitor to the baby's head.be attached to something: · The references and diagrams were attached to the document. ► fix especially British to join one thing firmly to another, using screws, nails, or glue, so that it stays there permanently: be fixed to something: · The chairs and tables were fixed to the floor.fix something to something: · They disconnected the gas, and fixed the water heater to an outside wall. ► fasten to fix one thing firmly to another, using string, wire, or tape, in a way that makes it easy to remove later: fasten something to something: · Claire carefully fastened the brooch to her dress.be fastened to something: · Snowflake ornaments and tiny red ribbons were fastened to the Christmas tree. ► connect to join two pieces of equipment together with a wire or a pipe, so that electricity, water, gas etc can pass from one to the other: connect something to something: · Have you connected the speakers to the amplifier?be connected to something: · The scanner is connected to a computer that prints the name and price of each grocery item at the checkout. ► link to connect two computers, machines, or systems so that electronic signals can pass from one to the other: · The two TV stations are linked by satellite.link something to something: · The college provides technology to all faculty members and students to link them to the Internet.be linked to something: · All the PCs in the office are linked to a main server. to like something very much► love/adore especially spoken to like something very much. Adore is stronger but less common than love: · We had a great time at Disneyland. The kids loved it.· I adore chocolate -- I could live on it.love/adore doing something: · The older men loved hearing about Russ's success on the football field.· Jessie adored being the centre of attention. ► be crazy about also be mad about something British informal to be extremely interested in an activity and spend a lot of time doing it or watching it: · Jonah's crazy about basketball.· She's always been mad about horses. ► be attached to to like something very much, especially something that you own or use, so that you would be upset if you lost it: · Mom gets very attached to her pets.· Casey had become quite attached to the comforts of his London home. ► have a passion for to like an activity very much, because it gives you a lot of pleasure or excitement: · From a very early age he had a passion for fast cars.· To be a great performer, you have to work very hard and have a passion for the music you play. ► be addicted to to enjoy doing something so much that you do it, watch it etc as often as you can and feel that you cannot stop doing it: · My son's addicted to computer games - he hardly ever comes out of his room.be addicted: · I started watching the show out of curiosity, but now I'm addicted! to like someone► like to think someone has good qualities so that you feel friendly towards them: · I've always liked Sally - she's a lot of fun.· Everybody liked Mr. Schofield, but he wasn't a very good teacher.· I never really liked her - she was always a bit stuck-up and condescending. ► be fond of to like someone very much, especially when you have known them for a long time: · You're very fond of Tyler, aren't you?· Over the years, the old man grew very fond of his nurse. ► be attached to to like someone that you have known for a long time, so that you would be upset if they left you: · We've grown quite attached to you, Annie, and we'll be very sorry to see you leave.· Nurses can easily get too attached to their patients. ► have a soft spot for informal to like one person in particular more than the other people in a group: · She's always had a soft spot for her youngest grandson.· I've had a soft spot for Janet ever since she took my side in the argument I had with Jimmy. ► see something in to like someone because of a particular quality that they have, especially when other people do not notice that quality in them: · Tom's so innocent. He only sees the good in everyone he meets.· I can't figure out what Doug sees in her. ► a man/woman after your own heart spoken someone that you like because they have the same attitudes that you have, or like the same things that you like: · I like the way she runs her business - a woman after my own heart. ► hit it off if two people hit it off , they like each other, especially as soon as they meet: · Art Howe asked him to come for an interview for the coaching job, and the two men hit it off immediately.· Those two didn't really hit it off at first, did they?hit it off with: · You can't expect to hit it off with everyone you meet. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► the attached form/cheque/leaflet etc Phrases Please fill in and return the attached reply slip. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► attach a condition (=say that an agreement depends on something)· Only one condition was attached to this agreement. ► attach a copy of something (=in an email)· I’m attaching a copy of the schedule. ► attach a file (=send it with an email)· Sorry, I forgot to attach the file. ► attach importance to something (=think it is important)· She attached great importance to loyalty. ► a legend is attached to something (=connected with it)· The cave has an unusual legend attached to it. ► securely locked/fastened/attached/held etc All firearms should be kept securely locked in a cabinet. ► attach significance to something (=give something importance)· They say they don't attach much significance to opinion polls. ► stigma attached to There is a social stigma attached to single parenthood. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► securely· Make sure that the identity labels are securely attached, and take them out to the heeling-in trench.· The hardest thing about snowshoeing is getting the tethered shoe attached securely to your feet.· From its rear chassis, two heavy chains were securely attached to the steel bars of the gates. ► still· The head, still attached, was twisted to one side.· I am still attached to it, but I try not to look out the window....· You're tilted slightly, and spinning, but you're still attached.· It was still attached to my head.· Only a short piece was still attached to the bell, and the rat was still hanging on to it.· But, the importance still attached to traditional familial connections provided a readymade network for recruitment.· The flag was still attached to its pin, which was buried in the sole of Prentice's shoe.· In that field was the access door from deep within the tank, a piece of the beam still attached. ► to· It's further complicated by the wire it's attached to.· They too attach to very specific parts of the limb.· The Bridge is smooth, nothing to attach to.· No virtue attached to that though. NOUN► chain· It was attached to a rusty chain hidden in the bracken.· Ask a grown-up to attach a hooked chain to the centre top bar.· His hands are on the table, but they are held together by manacles, to which a chain is attached.· She too was calm and stood patiently while he attached the chain to a length of rope around her neck. ► condition· The councils have the power to attach terms and conditions to the provision of funds to any institution.· Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money.· Since nobody else had been found, Hayling offered Thornton the Chairmanship, but the executive attached two humiliating conditions. ► end· The wires had no detonators attached to the ends of them. ► form· The main point is that prose varies a great deal in the amount of aesthetic interest which attaches to linguistic form.· They have to be reported on Schedule H, which can be attached to either Form 1040 or 1040A.· Moreover, whether or not conditions are attached to debt relief, they will certainly be attached to other forms of aid. ► importance· How much importance was attached to these initiatives in terms of overall company strategy? 5.· The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.· Such is the importance attached to an inquiry of this kind.· Seven bookings - four for Millwall and three for the Hammers - reflected the importance both clubs attach to the fixture.· This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process.· This partly accounts for the importance which farmers attach to cultivating their workers' loyalty.· Therapists vary in the importance they attach to background and childhood experiences of the parents.· Special importance shall be attached to an active labour market policy, such as vocational training and retraining. ► label· Make sure that the identity labels are securely attached, and take them out to the heeling-in trench.· It is impossible to isolate parts of the system of government to which the label may authoritatively be attached.· Annotations or labels may be attached to the clones and probes. ► meaning· What meaning can we attach to spatial position?· Their collective utterances may help us to understand the meaning they wished to attach to this favoured term.· External attributions may take two forms: That there is no meaning to be attached to the members' actions.· In each case a different meaning is attached to the act of lighting a candle.· The meanings and purposes they attach to this behaviour are largely inconsequential.· Exactly what meaning can be attached to the other histories, in which we do not exist, is not clear. ► name· His job is to unearth bodies, attach names to their bones and return the remains to their families.· But it makes the whole idea of the endowment more real to attach a name to the donor.· The Ross Perot candidate petition is attached to a name.· To attract attention to your project, it is best to attach a reputable research name and talent to your proposal. ► side· They are small grains with a little wing attached on each side, which helps them spread by the wind.· The blame attaches to both sides of industry.· Pipes and threaded connectors attached to the back sides serve as handles for technicians who carry and install the 700-pound panels.· Additionally, these straps can sometimes be used to attach extra side pockets.· A barn was attached on the left side and the whole place stood in the centre of a stone courtyard.· Cover the batten and attach the opposite side of touch-and-close fastener, as Method 1. ► significance· For on it depends the significance to be attached to the revolution.· And what significance should we attach to this development?· I keep coming back to the idea that everything can have some significance attached to it.· What significance does Hall attach to them? ► stigma· There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership, too.· The social stigma attached to epilepsy 3.· There's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum, as if she hasn't a brain between the ears!· In a print society, enormous stigma is attached to the adult nonreader.· In Britain, more so than in other countries, science fiction has always had a stigma attached to it.· There's no stigma attached to being half-cut on the streets.· As I've always been blonde I forget about the stigma attached to the colour.· Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled. ► string· However, the billions come with strings attached.· Local officials sometimes complained about adverse decisions and strings attached to the grant but generally seemed satisfied.· It's found money, no strings attached.· We have freedom and no strings attached.· But there are strings attached, and a fresh bureaucratic and political obstacle course lies ahead.· The utility of the new revenue as well as its potential for conflict hinged on the strings attached to its use.· Not only in agriculture, but in industry generally, grant money should have strings attached.· Few strings are attached to the Enterprise Allowance Scheme. ► unit· This was the Padre attached to the unit.· Political officers would be attached to units who worked in close co-operation with line officers. ► value· The payment was a symbolic expression of the legitimacy of the marriage and of the value that was attached to it.· Who establishes the value attached to different resources and goods?· In other words, a scarcity value attaches at present to the possession of a licence.· Instead, our desires reflect the collection of values that we attach to our humanity.· The low value attached to girl children is suggested by Rahima, a laundress who lives in Dhaka. ► wall· Buy one which attaches to the wall with hooks.· They also can be attached to a wall with special brackets or used as bookshelf speakers.· With my head down I manoeuvred the metal ring over the iron hook which was attached to the wall bracket.· Hanging about a foot from attached wall mounts, these sturdy steel bells would grace any garden.· The largest of these was attached to the inner wall of the heart by a thread of flesh.· But normally, they are attached to the wall of the house.· He found one attached to the wall near a long table; it was half-filled with crumpled, scratched-out cable forms. ► weight· We allow the individual to attach different weights as follows.· Fukuyama is unlikely to attach much weight to Liberation theology, which he would no doubt classify as a doomed subspecies of Marxism-Leninism.· The other lies on the tank bottom and is attached to a lead weight. ► wire· Use a similar hooked connection to attach the Earth wire and the wire leading from S1 to the solder tag.· In the 1980s mechanical hearts were attached by wires and tubes to machinery outside the body.· An oval drill head was attached to a flexible wire and threaded into a blood vessel in his leg.· A curl of green pressed powder was burning on the table, attached to a wire stand.· The Thing didn't have to be attached to any wires.· The 1M potentiometer should be prepared by attaching short wires to the centre and one of its outer terminals. VERB► become· They are smaller molecules than proteins, so they have to become attached to a protein molecule before they are activated.· Glycosylated hemoglobin refers to the specific red cell hemoglobin A types to which a glucose molecule becomes irreversibly attached.· After some time the roots become firmly attached.· Once these feelings are put into words, the family is on the road to becoming attached to the newborn.· She had not allowed herself to become too attached to the child.· It then becomes more firmly attached and receives nourishment from the fish by root-like processes.· Each tribe responded and became attached to its own specific landscape, seeing particular lakes and trees as sacred. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► attach yourself to somebody Word family
WORD FAMILYnounattachmentdetachmentadjectiveattached ≠ unattached ≠ detacheddetachableverbattach ≠ detach 1[transitive] to fasten or connect one object to another SYN fixattach something to something Attach a recent photograph to your application form. a small battery attached to a little loudspeakerthe attached form/cheque/leaflet etc Please fill in and return the attached reply slip.2 be attached to somebody/something to like someone or something very much, because you have known them or had them for a long time: It’s easy to become attached to the children you work with.3attach importance/significance etc to something to believe that something is important: People attach too much importance to economic forecasts.4[intransitive, transitive] if blame attaches or is attached to someone, they are responsible for something bad that happens: No blame can be attached to Roy for the incident.5[intransitive, transitive] if a quality, feeling, idea etc attaches or is attached to a person, thing, or event, it is connected with themattach to It’s easy to let the emotions attached to one situation spill over into others.6 be attached to something a)to work for part of a particular organization, especially for a short period of time: He was attached to the foreign affairs department of a Japanese newspaper. b)to be part of a bigger organization: The Food Ministry is attached to the Ministry of Agriculture.7[transitive] to connect a document or file to an email so that you can send them together → attachment8 attach yourself to somebody to join someone and spend a lot of time with them, often without being invited or welcome: A young man from Canada had attached himself to Sam.9 attach a condition (to something) to allow something to happen, but only if someone agrees to do a particular thing or accept a particular idea: When approving a merger, the commission can attach conditions.10 attach a label to somebody/something to think of or describe someone or something as being a particular thing, especially in a very general way: You can’t really attach a label to this type of art. |
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