confluence

/'kɒnfluәns/

托福英语词汇

📖 中文释义

  1. n. 合流, 合流点, 集合, 人群
  2. [医] 融合, 汇合

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

复数 confluences

💬 双语例句

  1. This process has been accelerated by a confluence of defense-industry reforms, comprehensive military upgrading, and integration of innovative operational concepts. The net effect is a growing capability of China’s strategic missile forces and military space platforms.

  2. Japan’s plunge in the second quarter was blamed on a sales-tax hike. Europe’s stagnant growth in the second quarter has been explained away as an aberration reflecting the confluence of weather effects and sanctions imposed on Russia.

    当然,借口是有的 — — 永远如此。 美国经济今年一季度的负增长据说与天气有关。 日本第二季度的衰退被归咎为销售税的提高。 欧洲二季度的停滞被解释为气候影响和对俄制裁的共同效应。

  3. The prospect of higher interest rates in the US weakens the incentive for investors to pour capital into emerging economies indiscriminately. Though a confluence of factors may have combined to upset the emerging-market applecart, Fed tapering is certainly one of them.

    尽管如此,美联储也不能说毫无责任。 美国利率走高的前景削弱了投资者不加甄别地投资新兴经济体的激励。 尽管影响新兴市场的是多种因素的综合效果,但美联储的逐渐退出QE显然也是其中之一。

🔵 同义词

🔗 常用搭配

confluence of circumstancesdangerous confluenceconfluence of defenseconfluence of economicconfluence of factorsconfluence of globalconfluence of soilconfluence of weather
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
  2. n. a flowing together