occasion

n. 时机，机会；场合；理由

vt. 引起，惹起

n.

机会，时机；场合；理由；需要

vt.

惹起，引起；

变形

复数：occasions过去式：occasioned过去分词：occasioned现在分词：occasioning第三人称单数：occasions

双语释义

[C]时刻,时候 a time when sth happens

[S]机会,时机 a suitable or favorable time

[C]特殊场合; 庆典 a special event or ceremony

[S]原因,理由 a direct cause or reason

vt. 惹起,引起cause

英英释义

occasion[ ə'keiʒən, əu- ]

n.

an event that occurs at a critical time

"it was needed only on special occasions"

同义词：juncture

a vaguely specified social event

"an occasion arranged to honor the president"

同义词：affairsocial occasionfunctionsocial function

reason

"there was no occasion for complaint"

the time of a particular event

"on the occasion of his 60th birthday"

an opportunity to do something

"there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"

v.give occasion to

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

celebrate an occasion庆祝某个时刻

choose one's occasion选择时机

fit the occasion适合这种场合

take occasion利用机会

形容词+～

formal occasion正式场合

auspicious occasion吉祥的时刻

the big occasion大庆的日子

介词+～

by the occasion利用这个机会

on one occasion在一个时刻

upon every occasion一有机会

～+介词

occasion for laughter笑的场合

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

occasion trouble引起麻烦

词组短语

on the occasion在那时；值此…之际

special occasion特别的时刻；特别的场合

on the occasion of值此…之际

on occasion有时；偶尔

on this occasion adj. 这一次

on one occasion adj. 有一次；曾经， 有一个时候

on that occasion在那个时机；在那个时候；在那个场合下

rise to the occasion应付自如

同近义词辨析

event重大事件

occasion场合，时刻，机关

indicate小事件

case事实，情况，实例

opportunity 主要指能够去做某事，尤其是达到自己目的，实现某种愿望的好机会。如：You should make the most of your opportunities of seeing the country and learning the language.(你应该尽量利用你的机会去看看这个国家，学习它的语言。)

occasion 主要指“时机”，“场合”，也含有“机会”的意思。如：The flags are hung out on the occasion of the National Day.(每逢国庆节，国旗都悬持出来了。)

chance 多指偶然的机会，意外的机会，带有侥幸的意味。如：Even so, it was a lucky chance that he could do it.(即使如此，那也是他凭着侥幸才做到这点。)

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

I only wear a tie on special occasions.
我只在特殊场合才打领带。

This is not an occasion for laughter.
这不是笑的时候.

There was no occasion for you to be so rude.
你没有理由这样粗鲁。

This will be an occasion for us all to make a new start.
这是我们大家重新开始的好机会。

The prince's wedding was quite an occasion.
王子的婚礼可真是一场盛会。

用作及物动词(vt.)

What occasioned his angry protest is the rival's deliberate and cynical foul.
对手的恶意犯规引起他的愤怒反抗。

Stephen's behaviour occasioned his parents much anxiety.
斯蒂芬的行为使其父母十分担心。

权威例句

occasion

occasion: [14] Like English befall, occasion depends on a metaphorical connection between ‘falling’ and ‘happening’. Its ultimate source is the Latin verb occidere ‘go down’, a compound formed from the prefix ob- ‘down’ and cadere ‘fall’ (source of English cadence, case ‘circumstance’, decadent, etc). The figurative notion of a ‘falling together of favourable circumstances’ led to the coining of a derived noun occasiō, meaning ‘appropriate time, opportunity’, and hence ‘reason’ and ‘cause’.English acquired it via Old French occasion. Also from Latin occidere comes English occident [14], a reference to the ‘west’ as the quarter in which the sun ‘goes down’ or sets.=> cadaver, cadence, case, decadent, occident

occasion (n.)

late 14c., "opportunity; grounds for action, state of affairs that makes something else possible; a happening, occurrence," from Old French ochaison, ocasion "cause, reason, excuse, pretext; opportunity" (13c.) or directly from Latin occasionem (nominative occasio) "opportunity, appropriate time," in Late Latin "cause," from occasum, occasus, past participle of occidere "fall down, go down," from ob "down, away" (see ob-) + cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). The notion is of a "falling together," or juncture, of circumstances.

occasion (v.)

mid-15c., "to bring (something) about," from occasion (n.), or else from Old French occasionner "to cause," from Medieval Latin occasionare, from Latin occasionem (see occasion (n.)). Related: Occasioned; occasioning.

1. Try to dress appropriately for each occasion.

试图为每个场合适当地打扮。

《21世纪大英汉词典》

2. What you said on the occasion was not appropriate.

在这种场合你说这样的话是不相宜的。

《新英汉大辞典》

3. Conversation on such an occasion is not expected to soar above polite commonplaces.

不能指望在这种场合的谈话会超越平常的客套。

《新英汉大辞典》

4. They go with this occasion. They go with the relationships.

它们出现在这种场合，它们与关系相随。

5. I have no occasion to see him these days.

这些天我都没有机会见到他。

6. On what occasion do you lie?

在什么场合您会撒谎？

7. I might not have particularly remembered this, but for a similar thing which happened on another occasion.

我本来不会特别记住这样的一件事，只因为同样的事又在别的场合发生过。

8. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

弟兄们，你们蒙召，是要得自由。只是不可将你们的自由当作放纵情欲的机会。总要用爱心互相服事。

9. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak about myself in this special occasion.

非常感谢您给我这次机会在这种特殊的场合谈论我自己。

10. This campaign must be the occasion, the vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams.

这场竞选必须成为表达你们的希望和梦想的机会与平台。

11. Today, I want to use this occasion to share with you my views on our relations and cooperation.

今天，我想利用这个机会与大家分享我对中印关系和中印合作的看法。

12. Sometimes we all expect our birthday to be a grand, joyous occasion and then it turns out quite flat.

有时候，我们都希望我们的生日是一个盛大、快乐的时刻，然后它变得非常平淡。

13. He says he can knock off a sonnet on any occasion.

他说他能在任何场合马上写出一首十四行诗。

14. Not every one of these techniques is appropriate for every speech or occasion.

这些技巧并非每一条都适用于任何演讲、任何场合。

15. At the symposium, he submitted a paper which he had written for some other occasion on the concept of caring about.

在那个研讨会上，他交了一篇,论文，是为其它一些场合写的,是关于关心这个概念。

16. We hope to see you on some future occasion.

希望以后在某些场合见到您。

17. On that occasion the coroner reportedly remarked that "this should never happen again".

据传闻，在那个场合，验尸官说，“决不应再次发生这种情况”。

18. Then you can use music for every occasion.

你可以把音乐用在任何场合。

19. Her feelings were so much excited on the occasion, that she found it indispensable to afford them this relief, even without having the comfort of any audience or sympathy whatever.

在这个场合下她的感情是十分激动的，所以她觉得有必要采用这种方法使它们轻松一下，即使没有任何观众在场，她得不到任何同情的安慰也罢。

20. At this very moment, through the wonder of telecommunications, more people are seeing and hearing what we say than on any other such occasion in the whole history of the world.

就在这个时刻，通过电讯的奇迹，看到和听到我们讲话的人比在整个世界历史上任何其他这样的场合都要多。

21. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak about myself in this special occasion.

感谢你给我此次机会在这特别的场合来谈谈我自己。

22. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak about myself on this special occasion.

感谢您给我这个机会在这个特别的场合介绍我自己。

23. My conscience tells me I have on every occasion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import and to the understanding of every candid mind.

我的良知今天告诉我在以往每一个场合中我都根据这些原则的明显含义和每一个坦诚思维对之的理解来遵守它们。

24. It is an occasion to raise awareness of key global health issues.

它是提高对关键全球卫生问题认识的一个重要机会。

25. “For me, shopping is a special occasion, ” she says.

“对我来说，购物是很特别的时刻，”她说。

26. “For me, shopping is a special occasion, ” she says.

“对我来说，购物是很特别的时刻，”她说。

27. He wished to make the most of the occasion, maintaining the suspense.

他想充分利用这场合，保持这紧张的局面。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

28. An ubiquitous virus, encephalomyocarditis, has been demonstrated upon occasion to affect swine.

曾经证实一种到处有的病毒-脑心脊炎病毒--偶尔侵害猪。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

29. Between first-time users and intermediate users there are many people who use sovereign applications only on occasion.

在首次用户和中间用户之间，有很多人仅仅是偶尔使用独占应用。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

30. He took the occasion to drop it without further discussion.

他借机搪塞，不作进一步讨论。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

31. a momentous occasion

一个重要场合

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

32. He was impeccably dressed for the occasion.

他的穿着在那种场合非常得体.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

33. He visits the city on occasion.

他偶尔访问这座城市。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

34. Difference of age and difference of temperament occasion difference of sen timent.

年令不同，气质不同，看法也就会不同。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

35. The application must adapt, but such adaptation can be considered a one-time procedure, or something done only by the corporate IT staff on rare occasion. In other words, ejector seat levers may need to be used, but they won’t be used very often.

应用程序必须适用公司的需求，而其这个适应应该是一次性的过程，或由公司的技术支持在极少的情况下成功设定的。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

36. And suppose you misjudge the occasion?

假如你们错误地估计了场合呢？

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句