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collaborate

verb
 
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪt/
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they collaborate
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪt/
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪt/
he / she / it collaborates
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪts/
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪts/
past simple collaborated
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪd/
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪd/
past participle collaborated
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪd/
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪd/
-ing form collaborating
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪŋ/
🔊/kəˈlæbəreɪtɪŋ/
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  1.  
    [intransitive] to work together with somebody in order to produce or achieve something合作；协作
    • Researchers around the world are collaborating to develop a new vaccine.世界各地的研究人员正在合作培育一种新的疫苗。🔊🔊
    • collaborate (with somebody) (on something) We have collaborated on many projects over the years.这些年来我们合作搞了许多项目。🔊🔊
    • collaborate (with somebody) (in something/in doing something) She agreed to collaborate with him in writing her biography.她同意与他合作撰写她的传记。🔊🔊
    Topics Discussion and agreementc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • actively
    • closely
    preposition
    • on
    • with
    See full entry
  2.  
    [intransitive] collaborate (with somebody) (disapproving) to help the enemy who has taken control of your country during a war通敌；勾结敌人
    • He was accused of collaborating with the enemy.他被指控与敌人合作。
    3. Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin collaborat- ‘worked with’, from the verb collaborare, from col- ‘together’ + laborare ‘to work’.