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confluence

/kon-floo-uhns/US // ˈkɒn flu əns //UK // (ˈkɒnflʊəns) //

汇合,汇合处,汇合点,会合

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like: the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
    • : their place of junction: St. Louis is at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
    • : a body of water formed by the flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.
    • : a coming together of people or things; concourse.
    • : a crowd or throng; assemblage.

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Examples

  • They are a part of a pattern of growing fire risk, emerging from a confluence of factors exacerbated by humans, spanning from ignitions to urban planning to forest management to climate change.

  • While that strange confluence of events may have surprised many, it didn’t surprise Lyric Jain, a 24-year-old, Cambridge-educated engineer who lives in the United Kingdom.

  • Still, thanks to a confluence of events — from a battering of the broader retail industry to the runaway growth of Amazon specifically — both big and small fulfillment centers are beginning to spring up and fast.

  • Then overnight, the confluence of two potent forces shrank what looked like a long timetable.

  • For the publishing industry, this confluence of disruption has had a massive impact of on advertising revenue.

  • Near the confluence of these two rivers a tiny bridge spans the gap connecting the Korengal with the Pech.

  • It may have been a confluence of factors, but going bald eagle became not so much a choice as an expectation.

  • A confluence of events so seemingly magical made for a mostly charmed film shoot.

  • At the same time, in a happy confluence of technology and history, Bush had an app on his iPad that he could use to draw pictures.

  • Is that a fair reading, or do you see more confluence between you and Reihan/Ross than I'm suggesting?

  • Washington attacked a French encampment at the confluence of the Alleghany and Monongahela.

  • At the confluence of these two rivers there was the finest assemblage of Savages that I have yet seen.

  • Small craw-fish387 go up as far as the mountains,388 and the larger as far as the confluence of the Indus and the Acesines.

  • Erdil is a tiny derelict Christian village situated in the Oramar valley a little above its confluence with the Zab.

  • Between these rivers, and nestling inside of their very confluence, reposes Harper's Ferry.