conglomeration
conglomeration 英 [kənˌglɒməˈreɪʃn] 美 [kənˌglɑməˈreɪʃn]
n. 聚集（物）；团块；凝聚；混合物
名词复数:conglomerations
- Conglomeration is a fancy word for a bunch of stuff brought together. People, companies, ideas, and other things can group together in conglomerations.
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- n. 聚集（物）；团块；凝聚；混合物
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1. The picture that emerged is a motley conglomeration of people with widely varying goals -- and some with no clear-cut goals at all other than to denounce greed.
由此看到是形形色色的人们聚合在一块，彼此的目标相去甚远，有些人除了谴责贪婪以外完全没有清晰的目标。
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2. I subsequently looked in the direction of the explosion through the dark glass and could see something that looked like a conglomeration of flames that promptly started rising.
接着我通过黑玻璃看向爆炸中心，可以看到一些火焰开始聚集，并立刻上升。
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3. I am often asked if the Olympic village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world's top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be.
我经常会被问到，奥运村——这片雄伟的旅馆和建筑群，为世界顶级运动员比赛期间提供食宿的地方——究竟是否像我们含笑意淫的那样，也是一个性狂欢场所？
- conglomeration (n.) 1620s, "act of gathering into a ball or mass," from Late Latin conglomerationem (nominative conglomeratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin conglomerare "to roll together, concentrate, heap up," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + glomerare "to gather into a ball, collect," from glomus (genitive glomeris) "a ball, ball-shaped mass," possibly from PIE *glem- (see glebe). Meaning "that which is conglomerated" is from 1650s.
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