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confluence

美音:[´kɔnfluəns ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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flu=to flow(流动)

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confluence


/'kɒnflʊəns; `kɑnfluəns/
n
1 place where two rivers flow together and become one (两河)汇流点, 汇合处
*the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile 青尼罗河与白尼罗河的交汇处.
2 (fml 文) coming together, esp of large numbers of people 汇合, 汇集(尤指大群的人).

confluence


n [singular]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Late Latin;Origin: confluentia, from Latin confluere 'to flow together', from com- ( COM-) + fluere 'to flow']
technical the place where two or more rivers flow together
formal a situation in which two or more things combine or happen at the same time
confluence of
 a confluence of unhappy events