n. 组；团体
adj. 群的；团体的
vi. 聚合
vt. 把…聚集；把…分组
英 [gruːp] 美 [ɡrup]
权威例句
- I thought I'd enrol you with an art group at the school.
我想我会吸收你参加学校的一个艺术团。
来自柯林斯例句 - As a group, today's old people are still relatively deprived.
总的来说，当今的老年人依然相对贫困。
来自柯林斯例句 - "Take That" are the best group in the whole world. So there.
“接招”乐队是世界上最好的组合，就是这样的。
来自柯林斯例句 - "Telmex" was bought off the government by a group of investors.
一批投资商从政府手中买下墨西哥电信公司。
来自柯林斯例句 - The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
去年，这个集团的纯利润率为30%。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
group 群
来自PIE*ger, 弯，转，成团，词源同crowd,aggregate.
英文词源
group
**group: **[17] _Group _was originally a term in art criticism. It referred to the disposition of a set of figures or objects in a painting, drawing, etc. Not until the 18th century was it used in its current general sense. It comes via French _groupe _from Italian gruppo, which was borrowed originally from prehistoric Germanic *_kruppaz _‘round mass, lump’ (formed from the same base as produced English crop).
=> crop
group (n.)
1690s, originally an art criticism term, "assemblage of figures or objects forming a harmonious whole in a painting or design," from French groupe "cluster, group" (17c.), from Italian gruppo "group, knot," which probably is, with Spanish grupo, from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz "round mass, lump," part of the general group of Germanic kr- words with the sense :rounded mass" (such as crop (n.). Extended to "any assemblage, a number of individuals related in some way" by 1736. Meaning "pop music combo" is from 1958.
group (v.)
"form into a group or groups," 1718 (transitive), 1801 (intransitive), from group (n.). Related: Grouped; grouping.
