1. | [c] 会议；集会an occasion when people come together to discuss or decide sth |
to have/hold/call/attend a meeting 召开╱举办╱召集╱参加会议 | |
a committee/staff meeting 委员会╱员工会议 | |
What time is the meeting? 什么时候开会？ | |
Helen will chair the meeting(= be in charge of it) . 海伦将主持这次会议。 | |
I'll be in a meeting all morning─can you take my calls? 我整个上午都要开会，你能不能帮我接一下电话？ | |
a meeting of the United Nations Security Council 联合国安理会会议 |
2. | [sing] （统称）与会者the people at a meeting |
The meeting voted to accept the pay offer. 与会者投票接受这一工资提议。 |
3. | [c] 会面；集会；集合a situation in which two or more people meet together, because they have arranged it or by chance |
At our first meeting I was nervous. 我们第一次见面时我很紧张。 | |
It was a chance meeting that would change my life. 那次偶然的会面改变了我的一生。 | |
He remembered their childhood meetings with nostalgia. 他怀念地回忆起他们孩提时代的聚会。 |
4. | [c] 运动会；（尤指）赛马a sports event or set of races, especially for horses |
an athletics meeting 运动会 | |
a race meeting 赛马大会 |
