bunch a group of things held or tied together, especially flowers or keys 一束,一串〔尤指花或钥匙〕
He handed me a bunch of daffodils.
他递给我一束水仙花。
bundle several papers, clothes, or sticks held or tied together in an untidypile 捆,把,扎,束
Bundles of papers and files filled the shelves.
架子上放满了一捆捆文件和卷宗。
cluster a group of things of the same kind that are close together in a place 串,束,群,簇
a cluster of stars
一簇星星
nOur road ended at a cluster of cottages.
Examples from the Corpus
group• The factory was burned down by a group of animal-rights activists.• We got all the family together for a groupphoto.• News International is a group of companies that produce newspapers and TV programmes.• an old photograph of a group of soldiers sitting on the ground• Each one of perhaps a group of four should prepare a briefsummary of an article of general interest.• A group of new houses is to be built on the old playing-field.• A group of us went out for a drink to celebrate Sonia's birthday.• The good thing about the class is that all the students belong to the same age group.• The hospital is desperate for donors from the rhesus negative blood group.• Locally we already have two Pittses and a Chipmunkgroupoperating, and have aerobatic training available at both Perth and Dundee.• He was one of the very few posters when the Weekly briefly tried to maintain an onlinediscussiongroup.• Men stood in groups on street corners.• Robberies were common on the lonely roads, so people usually travelled in groups.• Families in the lowest incomegroup could not afford to educate their children.• The teacher told us to get into groups of three.• Outside the school, little groups of friends were talking to each other.• Today you will learn a new group of verbs.• The Pearson Group owns a diversearray of companies.• Their policy was to keep demonstrators from different political groups apart.• a rock group• The tickets are expensive, but there is a discount for school groups.• A small group had gathered outside the stage door.• Inter-Company and Consortium programmes are run for organisations sponsoring smaller groups and provide a usefulcrosscultural experience.• The house was hidden behind a tallgroup of trees.• The talks I had with members of the group I recreated in my Conversations in Bloomsbury.• The group is to be featured in a full-lengthmovie later this year and recently signed a contract to promote Pepsi.• These research subjects are presumed to be ignorant and vulnerablegroups in society and almost always include students.
age/ethnic/income etc group• Nations and ethnic groups, similarly, would have equal rights, at least within the Sovietfederation.• Exactly the same principles apply as with any age group.• The same ranging of, or variability in, Piagetian developmental levels is found at any chronologicalage group.• Different ethnic groups within the country have been engaged in a civil war for more than forty-five years.• A national survey showed there was a similar problem in Britain, particularly among the 46-52 year old age group.• The state is the most important single source of income for the older age groups.• The focus of this latter approach is of enumerating the dependency of the older age groups.• The differences in responses from one age group to another were eye-opening.
group2 ●●○ verb
1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]GROUP/PUT INTO GROUPS to come together and form a group, or to arrange things or people together in a group (使)形成一组;把…分组
group (something) together/round/into etc
The photo shows four men grouped round a jeep.
照片上是四个男人围着一辆吉普车。
Different flowers can be grouped together to make a colourful display.
可以把不同的花组合在一起,布置得绚丽多姿。
small producers who group together to sell their produce
联合销售产品的小生产商
2[transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]GROUP/PUT INTO GROUPS to divide people or things into groups according to a system 将…分类
We were grouped into six age bands.
我们被分成六个年龄段。
We’ve grouped the questions under three headings.
我们把这些问题分别归在三个标题下面。
Examples from the Corpus
group• The plates were grouped according to color and size.• Students grouped around the notice board to read their exam results.• The main body spots are grouped in rosettes.• One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability.• Julia sat down at the piano, and the others grouped together to sing.• Second, services were grouped together with respect to the scale upon which they needed to be provided.
group (something) together/round/into etc• This group has developed into an effective, nationwide organization in the United States.• The planning will need to take account of the fact that the groups should come together at a later stage.• It consists of a number of locally-based groups, linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented.• Levine and Siegel grouped these excuses into four categories.• Yesterday the group moved into its growthphase.• Voices raised with excitement came from a fourthgroup, clustered round the sink in the corner of the room.• Anti-ERA groups had rounded up hundreds of supporters from rural communities all across the Florida panhandle and bused them to the capitol.
From Longman Business Dictionary
groupgroup /gruːp/ noun [countableC]
1 (also group of companies)ORGANIZATIONS a large business organization that consists of several companies that all have the same owner