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词汇 conference
释义 conference
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkɒn.fər.əns/ us /ˈkɑːn.fɚ.əns/

conferencenoun[C] (MEETING)


B1
an event, sometimes lasting a few days, at which there is a group of talks on a particular subject, or a meeting in which especially business matters are discussed formally: 会议,大会;讨论会,协商会
a conference on women's rights妇女权利大会
They frequently hold conferences at that hotel.他们常在那家酒店举办会议。
I'm speaking at/attending a conference next week.我下周要在一个会议上发言/出席一个会议。
Should I book the conference room for the meeting?我应该为会谈预订会议室吗?
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awaydaymainly UK
congress(MEETING)
consultation
convention(MEETING)
forum(MEETING)
meeting
seminar
summit(MEETING)
symposiumformal
 be in conferenceformal
to be in a meeting: 在参加会议,在开会
Ms O'Neill isn't available at the moment. She's in conference.奥尼尔女士现在不在,她正在开会。
He's giving a paper on thermodynamics at a conference at Manchester University.
A group of four teachers were delegated to represent the school at the union conference.
An international medical conference was established for the interchange of new ideas and approaches.召开了一次国际医学会议来交流新的思想及方法。
She called a news conference to give her side of the story.她召开新闻发布会给出了自己的说法。
The hotel is an ideal venue for conferences and business meetings.这家酒店是举行会议和商务会谈的理想场所。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Official meetings
AGM
assembly
assizes
brainstorming session
breakout room
call for papers
caucus
closed session
convoke
council of war
quorate
quorum
scrum
secretary
session
sit
sitting
skull session
speaking engagement
teleconferencing

conferencenoun[C] (SPORTS)


a group of sports teams that play each other in organized competitions:
They can win because they have the most talent in their conference.
He guided the team to the Southern Conference championship.
This year's ACC may be the strongest conference since the '84–'85 Big East.
The Canadian prime minister congratulated the Calgary Flames on their victory in the Western Conference finals.
Their most formidable opponent would appear to be the Falcons, whom they wouldn't face until the conference championship game.
His performance earned him North Central Conference player of the week honours for the third consecutive time this season.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competitions, & parts of competitions
bathing beauty
battle of witsidiom
be a game of two halvesidiom
beauty contest
beauty pageant
benefit match
bowl
championship
elimination tournament
kickabout
non-game
non-major
omnium
on your marks, get set, go!idiom
postgame
Rafferty's rules
round robin
starter
tournament
winning post

conference | American Dictionary


conference
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkɑn·fər·əns, -frəns/
a large, formal meeting at which there are groups of talks on a particular subject, or a small, private meeting for discussion of a particular matter:
[ C ]She spoke at a conference in Geneva.

conference | Business English


conference
noun[ C ]
 MEETINGSuk /ˈkɒnfərəns/us
an event, sometimes lasting a few days, at which there are a lot of talks and meetings about a particular subject:
a conference centre/hall
hold/organize a conference (on sth)The institute will be holding a conference on higher education and economic growth next spring.
attend/go to/speak at a conferenceMost of the department attended the Mobile World conference in Barcelona.
He was the keynote speaker at a conference in Frankfurt.
conference delegate/participantConference delegates will receive a discount on the price of their hotel rooms.
a private and formal meeting between a small number of people:
After a short conference with his advisers, he announced his decision to resign.
a conference room
 be in conferenceformal
to be in a meeting:
She directed him into a meeting room, where a number of executives were in conference.
See also
news conference
press conference
sales conference
shipping conference
teleconference

Examples of conference


conference
It almost seems as if the difficulties surrounding the 1929 conference made everyone involved hesitate to approach the issue again.
Unlike many sets of conference papers, they pick on common themes.
This means a whole lot of things could change by the time we get to the national conference.
To be sure, the conference tried to clarify things into four strands, each with three sessions of three papers.
We would like to thank conference participants for their comments and suggestions.
Unlike the fall conference, each committee discussed the same four topics.
We organized these conferences to try to get people together and discuss the issues in what we thought were useful ways.
The conference elicited a number of distinguished papers, and the proceedings will soon be published.
The consistent typing makes these books more readable than many camera-ready conference proceedings.
Transcripts that were difficult to score were reviewed by both coders and resolved by conference.
The papers were presented at an international conference in 2004 and were edited to form chapters in this book.
He has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals, written and edited numerous books, and delivered hundreds of presentations at conferences around the world.
He enjoyed a party and always ensured that his conferences were as good on the social side as they were in purpose and intellectual content.
Columnists wondered why a century-old conference paper came in for such blistering attacks.
They categorize the four areas covered by the technical papers in the conference and summarize the highlights of the plenary sessions.
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Collocations withconference


conference

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annual conference
I would like formally to welcome you to this year's annualconference.
athletic conference
Most or all members belong to at least one other athleticconference.
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Wikipedia

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biennial conference
Each union, at its annual or biennialconference, determines its structure.
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Hansard archive

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