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Hi, everybody, welcome back to know your verbs. My name is Alisha and in this episode we're going to talk about the verb join. Let's get started.

大家好，欢迎回道know your verbs栏目。我叫Alisha，本期我们将讨论动词join。让我们开始吧。

Let's start with the basic definition of the verb join. To join means to participate in an activity with other people.

让我们从动词join的基本定义开始。join意味着与其他人一起参加活动。

Some examples: Do you want to join us for lunch? She joined him for a movie. Okay, now let's look at the conjugations for this verb.

一些例子：Do you want to join us for lunch? She joined him for a movie.好的，现在让我们看看这个动词的变位。

Present: join, joins; past: joined; past participle: joined; progressive: joining. Now let's talk about some additional meanings for this verb.

现在时：join，joins；过去时：joined；过去分词：joined；进行时：joining。现在让我们谈谈这个动词的一些附加含义。

The first additional meaning is to connect two or more things. Some examples: The furniture pieces are joined with screws. A high-speed train joins the cities together.

第一个附加含义是连接两个或两个以上的东西。一些例子：The furniture pieces are joined with screws. A high-speed train joins the cities together.

Join is used in these sentences to describe fitting two or more things together.

这些句子中使用join来描述将两个或两个以上的东西连接在一起。

This can be physically like closely fitting two things together, closely connecting two things as we see in the first sentence.

这可以是物理上的紧密贴合，就像我们在第一个句子中看到的那样，将两件东西紧密连接在一起。

Or it can mean creating a connecting pathway or connecting route as we see in the second example sentence.

或者它可以表示创建连接路径或连接路线，就像我们在第二个例句中看到的那样。

The first example sentence "the furniture pieces are joined with screws" shows us how the two pieces are fit together.

第一个例句“the furniture pieces are joined with screws”向我们展示了两件家具是如何装配在一起的。

So with screws shows us that screws are used to connect two things and hold them in place.

with screws向我们展示了螺丝用于连接两件物品并将它们固定到位。

In the second example sentence, it's a high-speed train that connects two cities, but we use joins. So a high-speed train joins the cities. It means connects in some way.

在第二个例句中，一列连接两座城市的高速列车，但我们使用的是join。高速列车连接了这些城市。它的意思是以某种方式连接。

So join can mean physical connection or like a transportation route for connection, some manner of connecting two or more things.

join可以表示物理连接或连接的运输路线，某种连接两件或更多事物的方式。

The next additional meaning is to become a member of a group. Let's look at some examples: Do you want to join the army? He joined a volunteer group.

下一个附加含义是成为一个团体的成员。让我们看一些例子：Do you want to join the army? He joined a volunteer group.

So these sentences show us how join is used to talk about becoming a member of an organization or a group.

这些句子向我们展示了如何使用join来谈论成为一个组织或团体的成员。

When you want to use join in this way, make sure to name the group or the organization specifically. We don't tend to use this for schools.

当您想以这种方式使用join时，请确保明确指定该团体或组织。我们不将其用于学校。

Necessarily you might become a student at a school and in that case we use the verb become a student.

您一定会成为学校的学生，在这种情况下，我们使用动词become a student。

When we're talking about a specific organization, becoming a member of something, we tend to use join. So this use of join is interesting.

当我们谈论特定组织，成为某个组织的成员时，我们倾向于使用join。这种用法很有趣。

We use it for organizations, for clubs, like we see in the first example the army, or a volunteer group as we see in the second example sentence.

我们将其用于组织、俱乐部，如我们在第一个例子中看到的军队，或我们在第二个例句中看到的志愿者团体。

But we do not use this for schools. For example, saying join a cooking school is something we would not say. We instead use join for things that we become a member of.

但我们不会将其用于学校。例如，我们不会说join a cooking school。我们反而用join来表示我们成为其中一员的事物。

So when you want to use this meaning, make sure that you're talking about some kind of like membership-based organization.

当您想使用这个含义时，请确保您正在谈论某种基于会员制的组织。

You need to enroll or like register yourself to become a member of something.

您需要注册或登记才能成为某个组织的成员。

In the first example sentence, it's do you want to join the army. The army is an organization that you can participate in, you can enroll as a member there.

在第一个例句中，do you want to join the army，军队是一个你可以参与的组织，你可以在那里注册成为会员。

In the second example sentence, it's a volunteer group. He joined a volunteer group shows that he became a member of the volunteer group.

在第二个例句中，它是一个志愿者团体。He joined a volunteer group表明他成为了志愿者团体的一员。

So when you want to become a member of an organization, you can use the verb join to describe that.

当你想成为一个组织的成员时，你可以用动词join来描述。

The first variation is to join in. This means to participate in a group activity. This is for an activity that is already happening.

第一种变体是to join in。这意味着参加一项小组活动。这是针对已经发生的活动。

It's something that's already in progress and a person is invited to participate in that activity.

这是已经在进行的事情，一个人被邀请参加该活动。

Let's look at some examples: Do you want to join in for this round of cards? Join in and help save the environment.

让我们看一些例子：Do you want to join in for this round of cards? Join in and help save the environment.

So this use of join in is used for situations where there are groups of people who are already doing some action, some activity.

join in的这种用法用于有一群人已经在做某些动作、某些活动的情况。

In the first example sentence, it's a group of people who are playing cards. In the second example sentence, it's people who are working to help the environment.

在第一个例句中，是一群正在打牌的人。在第二个例句中，是那些正在努力帮助保护环境的人。

So using join in is used to indicate an invitation to someone. Someone else is being invited to participate in an ongoing activity.

join in用来表示对某人的邀请。邀请其他人参加正在进行的活动。

In the second example sentence, we see a very common use of join in. It's used as like a gentle command.

在第二个例句中，我们看到了join in的非常常见的用法。它就像一个温和的命令一样。

Join in and help save the environment, this shows us that there's someone or some group of people already working to do that thing and they're inviting other people to participate.

Join in and help save the environment，这表明有人或一些群体已经在努力做这件事，他们正在邀请其他人参与。

So join in is like to participate in an activity that began prior to the conversation. So join in could be a friendly way to make an invitation to someone.

join in就像参加在对话之前开始的活动。join in可能是向某人发出邀请的一种友好方式。

The next variation is to join in marriage, to join in marriage. To join in marriage means to perform a wedding ceremony for two people.

下一个变体是to join in marriage。to join in marriage意味着为两个人举行婚礼。

Examples: They were joined in marriage in the summer of 1988. They're searching for an official to join them in marriage.

例如：They were joined in marriage in the summer of 1988. They're searching for an official to join them in marriage.

This is a fairly formal term and we don't use it very often in everyday conversation.

这是一个相当正式的术语，我们在日常对话中不经常使用它。

You might see this expression used on perhaps a wedding invitation or maybe in like a newspaper report about someone's wedding, I suppose.

我想，您可能会在婚礼邀请函上或在关于某人婚礼的报纸报道中看到这种表达方式。

So to join someone in marriage means to marry those people, to be the official at a wedding ceremony and to perform the ceremony that unites the two people in marriage.

to join someone in marriage意味着与某人结婚，成为婚礼的正式主持人，并主持两人结婚的仪式。

You might also hear to join in matrimony. Matrimony is the state of being married. So to join in marriage just refers to performing a marriage ceremony.

您可能还会听到to join in matrimony。Matrimony是已婚的状态。to join in marriage只是指举行结婚仪式。

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