occasion
英[ə'keɪʒ(ə)n]
美[ə'keʒn]
- n. 时机，机会；场合；理由
- vt. 引起，惹起
英英释意
- 1. an event that occurs at a critical time;
- "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"
- "it was needed only on special occasions"
- 2. a vaguely specified social event;
- "the party was quite an affair"
- "an occasion arranged to honor the president"
- "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- 3. reason;
- "there was no occasion for complaint"
- 4. the time of a particular event;
- "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
- 5. an opportunity to do something;
- "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"