喜樂美語

Picture several separate groups growing into one body — parties or people who were apart now pulling together so they can act as a single team toward the same goal.

可以想成：本來各自分開的幾股力量，慢慢長在一起、合成一個整體——原本各走各的黨派或團體，現在綁成同一隊來行動、朝同一個目標一起使力。

From the word’s history

From Latin coalescere 'to grow together, unite' (com- 'together' + alescere 'to grow'). A coalition is separate parts grown into one.

源自拉丁文 coalescere「一起長、合而為一」（com- 一起＋ alescere 生長）。所以 coalition 的畫面比較像『分開的東西長成一體』，正是核心裡幾股力量併攏的意思。

etymonline.com/word/coalition

One branch

分開的力量併成一體

登入就可以看這一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

political alliance · noun · B2

A group made by two or more political parties who join together so they can run a government or fight an election as one team.

聯合政府 / 政黨聯盟

同家族的字

複數 coalitions

意思相反

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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

COALitionname

  • 1

    derogatoryslanggovernmentpoliticsThe Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party, emphasising its pro-coal policies.

    • 2017 Giles Parkinson, Big utilities about to pay price of saying no to coal and COALition Renew Economy, 11 September 2017. Accessed 3 June 2019.
    • 2019 David Llewellyn-Smith, Can Albo out-coal the COALition? MacroBusiness, 28 May 2019. Accessed 3 June 2019.

Coalitionname

  • 1

    Any of several series of nations allied against France in the Napoleonic Wars; in the War of the First Coalition, War of the Second Coalition, etc.

coalitionnoun/kəʊ.əˈlɪʃ.ən/

  • 1

    A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.

    • The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
    • At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
  • 2

    rareA group of cheetahs.

    • Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.
    • Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • Coalition of the Willing

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