context
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.tekst/us/ˈkɑːn.tekst/contextnoun[C](CAUSE OF EVENT)
B2
thesituationwithin which somethingexistsorhappens, and that canhelpexplainit:
(事情存在、发生的)背景,环境It isimportanttoseeall thefightingandbloodshedin hisplaysinhistoricalcontext.结合历史背景解读他戏剧作品中所有的争斗和流血事件,这点很重要。
Thissmallbattleis veryimportantin thecontextofScottishhistory.这场小战役在苏格兰历史上非常重要。
- Tounderstandthisissue, it must first besituatedinitscontext.
- Theproductionisdeliberatelystyleless, and thistakestheplayout ofitshistoricalcontext.
- What was the context youfoundthe word in?
- Hethinkssmackingis OK in the context of ahappyfamily.
- Hisremarkswere verytastelessin the context of amemorialservice.
Linking and relating
- affiliated
- AL
- appertain tosomething
- applicable
- around
- attach
- concern
- interconnected
- interconnectedness
- interconnection
- intercorrelate
- intercorrelation
- relatable
- relate
- relate tosomeone/something
- relation
- relationship
- relative
- tar
- tie
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Regarding and concerning
contextnoun[C](LANGUAGE)
C1
thetextorspeechthat comesimmediatelybefore and after aparticularphrase orpieceoftextandhelpstoexplainitsmeaning:
上下文;语境In thisexercise, a word is blanked out and you have toguesswhat it is bylookingat the context.在这个练习中,有一个单词被抽去了,你必须根据上下文猜测这个单词是什么。
out of context
If words are used out of context, only asmallseparatepartof what wasoriginallysaid or written isreported, with theresultthattheirmeaningis notclearor is notunderstood:
脱离上下文Thereportertook myremarkscompletelyout of context.记者引用我的话完全是断章取义。
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