英语写作中“联系、关联”associate correlate 及associated的用法
似乎是同义词的associate correlate 实际上意思差别明显,associate 是人们把两者联系在一起(主观联系),而correlate 指客观联系。
例如:
We always associate sports with health.(我们总是将运动和健康联系起来。)
Money is often associated with happiness.(金钱经常与幸福联系在一起。)
People associate the advent of AI with Turning.(人们将AI的出现与图灵联系在一起。)
A public key is inevitably associated with a private key.(一个公钥必与一私钥联系在一起。)
上面这些例句都是指人们的观念,但这些观念都是以客观事实为基础的,所谓实际上也是指客观事实,特别是用于被动态的第二句和第四句。
上面的第二、四句也可以用correlate :
Money and happiness often correlate.
A public key inevitably correlate with a private one.
又例如:
As shown in Fig. X, overhead of computation and that of communication closely correlate with the number of users.(如图X所示,计算开销和通信开销与用户数量紧密相关。)
注意上句不能用associate,因为在表达客观事实,不是表达主观观念。
Computational cost doesn’t seem to correlate with the number of users, which demonstrates the scalability of our protocol.(计算成本看起来与用户数量不相关,这显示了我们协议的可伸缩性。)
此外,形容词associated 不再局限“主观联系的”,可以表达主观、客观相联系的,例如:
A private key associated with a public key.(与一个公钥相关的私钥)
users and associated information (用户及相关信息)
本文是下面文章的姊妹篇:
【英文写作中表达“有关的”的单词related 、associated 、relevant 等的用法 - CSDN App】
(例句原创)
Correlated associated
correlate 指客观关联性
associate 指主观联系,人们把两者联系在一起
correlated、associated似乎是同义词,但前者联系更紧密