connecting

1. V-RECIP If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, or if two things connect, the two things are joined together. (某物、某人) 连接 (某物); (一物与另一物) 相连

You can connect the speakers to your CD player. 你可以将这些扬声器与你的激光唱机连接起来。

I connected the wires for the transformer. 我给变压器接上了电线。

2. V-RECIP If two things or places connect or if something connects them, they are joined and people or things can pass between them. (两物或两地) 相连通

...the long hallway that connects the rooms. …连接这些房间的长长的过道。

A pedestrian bridge now connects the parking garage with the mall. 现在一座人行桥连通车库和购物中心。

3. V-I If one train or plane, for example, connects with another, it arrives at a time which allows passengers to change to the other one in order to continue their trip. (与火车、飞机等) 联运

...a train connecting with a ferry to Ireland. …一列与通往爱尔兰的渡船联运的火车。

4. V-T If a piece of equipment or a place is connected to a source of power or water, it is joined to that source so that it has power or water. 将 (设备、某地与水源、电源等) 接通[usu passive]

These appliances should not be connected to power supplies. 这些装置不应该接通电源。

5. PHRASAL VERB Connect up means the same as . 接通

The shower is easy to install – it needs only to be connected up to the hot and cold water supply. 淋浴器很容易安装–只需接上冷热水即可。

6. V-T If you connect a person or thing with something, you realize that there is a link or relationship between them. 将 (某人、某物与某事物) 联系起来

I hoped he would not connect me with that now-embarrassing review I'd written seven years earlier. 我希望他不会把我和我7年前写的、现在读起来令人难堪的评论联系起来。

7. V-T Something that connects a person or thing with something else shows or provides a link or relationship between them. 显示 (某人、某物与某事物) 有关联

A search of Brady's house revealed nothing that could connect him with the robberies. 对布雷迪住处的搜查没有查出可以显示他同这些抢劫案有关联的任何线索。