adjourn，adjournment，prorogation，rise ；

[例句] 国会在结束夏季休会后今天开始恢复工作。 Parliament returns to work today after its summer recess.

[例句] 听证会现已休会就餐。 The hearings have now recessed for dinner.

sense，understand by insight ；

[例句] 我现在的情形是只可意会,不可言传的. It is rather to be thought of than expressed what was now my condition.

[例句] 假如我产生错觉,他们已同意会阻止我. They have agreed to stop me if I get delusional.

meet with (esp. a foreign visitor)，interview，meeting ；

[例句] 他把我带到了一间空荡荡的、有过堂风的会见室。 He led me through to a bare, draughty interviewing room.

[例句] 这家礼品店最畅销的商品是尼克松会见猫王普雷斯利的照片。 The gift shop's biggest seller is a photo of Nixon meeting Presley.

（聚会） meet，（约会） tryst，encounter ；

[例句] 他们在俱乐部相会是为了联谊和寻求建议。 They meet at the club for companionship and advice.

[例句] 战争使吉姆和玛丽相会了. Jim and Mary were flung together by the war.

misunderstand，mistake，misapprehend，misconstrue，misapprehension ；

[例句] 别误会我的意思，这个工作很有意思，可惜不是长期性的。 Don't get me wrong, it's interesting work. But it's not permanent.

[例句] 别误会，我并不是说他所做的是好事。 I'm not saying what he did was good, don't misunderstand me.

learn，master，learned society，society，Acad. ；

[例句] 终有一天，你会学会让泪往心里流。 Eventually, you'll learn to cry that on the inside.

[例句] 她通过描摹旧故事书上的图画学会了画画。 She learned to draw by tracing pictures out of old storybooks.

（企业的）board of directors，（学校等的） board of trustees，directorate ；

[例句] 董事会迟迟未能作出决定。 The Board had been slow to render its verdict.

[例句] 理查德·纳尔逊上校直到今年才从地方教育董事会离职。 Colonel Richard Nelson served on the school board until this year.

assembly hall，hall，auditoria，auditorium，conncil house ；

[例句] 大群记者在会堂外争抢位置. Hordes of journalists jostled for position outside the conference hall.

[例句] 这个会堂音响效果很差. The hall is bad in sound.

appointment，engagement，date，rendezvous，tryst；

[例句] 他太累了，不得不取消一些约会。 He had to cancel some engagements because of tiredness.

[例句] 她想知道之后他们要去哪里约会。 She wondered where they were going to rendezvous afterwards.

nightclub，night club，discothèque，cabaret，club ；

[例句] 当时我在布里克斯顿的一家夜总会里，那里发生了一场斗殴。 I was in a nightclub in Brixton and a fight broke out.

[例句] 她是伦敦著名的“薄荷犀牛”夜总会的钢管舞舞者。 She is a pole dancer at London's famous Spearmint Rhino club.

（会心） understanding，knowing ；

[例句] 戴安娜会意，任由他们自己去解决。 Diana took the hint and left them to it.

[例句] 他会意地笑了。 He smiled knowingly.

tea party，tea reception，tea forum ；

[例句] 我们举办茶话会招待他们. They were entertained at a tea party.

[例句] 她和珊波尔先生曾经参加过教会的茶话会和交谊会. There had been church teas and sociable which she and Mr. Semple attended.

committee，commission，council ；

[例句] 委员会最近因为介入该起争端而遭到批评。 The council recently drew fire for its intervention in the dispute.

[例句] 如果委员会我行我素的话，整个交易将化为泡影。 If the Commission has its way, the entire deal will be scuppered.

distinguished gathering，grand meeting [meet，gathering]，bash，pageant ；

[例句] 伦敦时装周将是一场活力四射的盛会。 London Fashion Week will be a sparky affair.

[例句] 彩旗增添了盛会的欢乐气氛。 The colourful flags added to the gaiety of the occasion.

[旧] guild ；

[例句] 中世纪城市的行会市民,也是如此. The same thing holds for the guild member in the medieval towns.

[例句] 盗贼行会是所有人的朋友,同时它也会六亲不认. The Thieves'Guild is friend to everyone and no one.

hold a meeting，have a meeting，meet，attend a meeting ；

[例句] 南部一些州的领导正在路易斯维尔开会。 Leaders of the Southern states are meeting in Louisville.

[例句] 在华盛顿，总统和他的顾问们一整天都在开会。 In Washington, the President and his advisers spent the day in meetings.

assembly，rally，gathering，meeting，agora ；

dance，ball，dancing party，hop，kickup ；

[例句] 好莱坞的大牌影星们出席了那个舞会。 The Ball was attended by the cream of Hollywood society.

[例句] 她经常去利特尔科特参加聚会和舞会。 She often went to parties and dances at Littlecote.

assembly room，boardroom，council-chamber，[法] chamber，council chamber ；

[例句] 所有人都已集中到了董事会会议室，准备参加上午9点钟的会议。 Everyone had already assembled in the boardroom for the 9:00 a.m. session.

[例句] 她大模大样地走入会议室。 She swept into the conference room.

present [deliver，address] a note to ，（外交文件） note ；

[例句] 正式照会实质上是正式的个人函件. A Formal Note is essentially a formal personal letter.

[例句] 照会是在外交交往中最常用的文书形式. The note is the most commonly used form of written communication in diplomatic intercourse.