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单词 construction
释义
construction
noun
uk
/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us
/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/

constructionnoun(BUILDING)

B2[U]
theworkofbuildingor making something,especiallybuildings,bridges, etc.:
建造；构筑；建设
Sheworksinconstruction/intheconstructionindustry.她在建筑行业工作。
Thebridgeis amarvellousworkofengineeringand construction.这座桥梁是工程学和建筑业的杰作。
Thiswebsiteiscurrentlyunderconstruction(= beingcreated).该网站目前正在创建中。
[U]
theparticulartypeofstructure,materials, etc. that something has:
（某种）构造，结构
Thebridgeis oflightweightconstruction.这座桥结构较轻。
B2[C]
abuilding:
建筑物
What's thatconcreteandmetalconstruction over there?那边那座混凝土和金属结构的建筑物是什么？
Synonyms
building
edificeformal
erection(BUILDING)
structure(BUILDING)
More examples
  • Fallinghousepricesareillustrativeof thecrisisfacingthe constructionindustry.
  • Thestartingdatefor the constructionworkisJune23.
  • The construction of thetunnelis alargeandcomplexundertaking.
  • He called forcheckstodiscoverwhethercorruptofficialsare beingbribedtoconniveinshoddyconstruction.
  • How are we going topayfor the constructionwork?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Building: construction work & workers
  • banksman
  • blaster
  • break groundidiom
  • brick
  • brick upsomething
  • electrician
  • erection
  • flip
  • found
  • glazier
  • refurb
  • refurbish
  • refurbished
  • refurbishment
  • renovate
  • thatcher
  • tiler
  • well built
  • workman
  • wright
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Frames & structures
Buildings in general

constructionnoun(LANGUAGE)

B2[C]languagespecialized
the way in which the words in asentenceor phrase arearranged:
（句子或词组的）结构，构造
Thewriterhas used severalcomplexgrammaticalconstructions.作者使用了几个复杂的句法结构。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
  • affricate
  • allophone
  • allophony
  • anaphor
  • anaphora
  • chatty
  • colloquial
  • distributive
  • double entendre
  • downtoner
  • emphatic
  • entailment
  • etymological
  • oxymoron
  • parallelism
  • philological
  • philology
  • polysemy
  • portmanteau word
  • prescriptivism
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put a construction onsomethingformal
tounderstandsomething in aparticularway:
将…理解为
How can they put such adamningconstruction on aperfectlyinnocentphrase?他们怎么能把一个毫无恶意的词语理解为谴责呢？
tounderstandsomething as having aparticularmeaning,especiallyother people'sactionsandstatements:
把…解释为
I don'twantthem to put thewrongconstruction on myactions.我不想让他们误解我的举动。
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(Definition ofconstructionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

construction| American Dictionary

construction
noun
us
/kənˈstrʌk·ʃən/
[U]
theactorresultof putting different things together:
A newhotelis now under construction(= beingbuilt).
[C]fml
yourunderstandingof themeaningof something in aparticularway:
The construction you are putting on my client’sstatementisunfair.
(Definition ofconstructionfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

construction| Business English

construction
noun
uk
/kənˈstrʌkʃən/us
[U]
theprocessorbusinessofbuildinglargeobjectssuch asbuildings,roads,bridges, etc.:
Employment in constructionincreasedby 12,000.
a construction site/project/worker29-year-old Jose has a well-paidjobat adowntownconstructionsite.
under constructionInFebruary, there were 15% fewerhomesunder construction than in thecorrespondingmonthof lastyear.
a constructioncompany/firm/group
the constructionindustry/sector
[U]PRODUCTION
theactivityof putting the differentpartsof something together inorderto make it:
Thechemicalisfoundinmaterialsused in the construction oftraveltrailers.
under constructionThey now have foursatellitesunder construction.
the construction of aninvestmentportfolio
[U]
theparticulartypeofstructure,materials, etc. that something has:
Thebridgeis oflightweightconstruction.
[C]
abuildingor otherobjectthat has beenbuilt:
The newofficebuildingwas aglassandsteelconstruction.
(Definition ofconstructionfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconstruction

construction
Each run can be taken as a record of an agent's memory constructions history.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The second par t takes up linguistic practices in relation to the social practices and gender constructions that the first par t has established.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In addition, individual lexical items are eventually related into more general constructions, as we will see later.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In other words, these personal nullsubject constructions lie at the extreme end of specificity of reference.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If we make the very conservative assumption that these three constructions are independent, we find an average category validity of 0.33 for constructions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To examine children's use of syntactic information, two constructions in which there is a conflict between the referential and syntactic information were included.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As the authors show, there is considerable systeminternal motivation for treating many verb-particle constructions as grammatical units.
From theCambridge English Corpus
According to the form-based criteria of a traditional account, these constructions are not passives.
From theCambridge English Corpus
All three constructions are treated as long distance dependencies triggered by a gap or a clitic (section 6n1).
From theCambridge English Corpus
The filler sentences made use of different kinds of syntactic constructions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Constructions also specify linking relations for combination with other constructions in their semantic structures.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One only has to think of the well-known unnaturalness of logical ' or ' and ' if - then ' constructions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
On the other hand, the nouns in such constructions have many of them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Minor register variation patterns are introduced by variation in equational and copula verb constructions, and by avoidance of some of the case variables.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Progress in this direction will be made once the semantics of given constructions are more carefully studied.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocationswithconstruction

construction

These are words often used in combination withconstruction.

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actual construction
Coding is often used in logic to hide theactualconstructionbehind the neutrality of numbers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
canon of construction
Children who attend nursery schools are people and the greater, as a matter of the primecanonofconstruction, includes the lesser.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
commercial construction
That has made it impossible to provide adequate funds in advance for what is acommercialconstruction.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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