union

詞意辨析：

club, association, institute, league, union, society

這些名詞均有“社團，會社，協會”之意。
club: 表俱樂部或會社，其成員因志同道合，有共同興趣、愛好而組織到一起進行社交、娛樂或體育等活動。
association: 指較為正式的組織，強調興趣和需要的一致性。
institute: 指為專門的目標而建立的學會或研究所。
league: 指為了共同的目的和利益而組成的社團、同盟或聯合會。
union: 多指工會，也指學會或協會。
society: 可與association換用，但前者的宗旨更嚴格，會員之間聯繫更緊密，活動更積極。

league, federation, union, alliance

這些名詞均含“聯盟、同盟、聯合會”之意。
league: 普通用詞，指為了共同的利益而建立的地區性、全國性或國際性的聯合組織，也指民間或半官方組織的聯盟。
federation: 泛指用條款固定下來的一切聯合，尤指聯邦政府。
union: 普通用詞，指由若干個體結成的一個統一的整體。強調其永久性。
alliance: 普通用詞，指對雙方均有利的任何聯盟。union

英文解釋：

名詞 union:

1. an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
   同義詞：labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
2. the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)
   同義詞：North
3. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
   同義詞：coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, sexual union
4. the state of being joined or united or linked
   同義詞：unification
5. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
   同義詞：marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock
6. healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
   同義詞：conglutination
7. a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
8. a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
   同義詞：sum, join
9. the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
10. a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11. the act of making or becoming a single unit
    同義詞：unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure

形容詞 union:

1. being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War
   同義詞：Federal
2. of trade unions

 

相關句子：

1. The Trade Union Movement works to obtain higher wages and better conditions.
   工會運動旨在爭取更高的工資和更好的工作條件。
2. Fifteen separate republics comprised the Soviet Union.
   蘇聯由十五個加盟共和國組成。
3. The union struck for better work conditions.
   工會為爭取更好的工作條件而罷工。
4. We all accused the union of torpedoing the negotiation.
   我們都譴責工會破壞談判。
5. He was elected the leader of the union.
   他被選為工會的領導人。
6. The group have split away/off from the official union.
   這一部分人已從正式的聯盟中分裂出來了。
7. The artist's work shows the perfect union of craftsmanship and imagination.
   這位藝術家的作品表現了技藝和想像力的完美的結合。
8. Do you belong to a union?
   你屬於某個工會嗎？