1 [I,T] to share and exchange information, ideas or feelings with sb 传达;沟通:
Parents often have difficulty communicating with their teenage children.父母与十来岁的子女之间沟通常遇到困难。Our boss is good at communicating her ideas to the team.我们的老板善于把她的思想传达给整个班子。
2 [T] (formal 正式) (usually passive 通常用于被动语态) to pass a disease from one person or animal to another 传染(疾病)
3 [I] to lead from one place to another 连接:
two rooms with a communicating door两个有门互通的房间
communicate/kəˋmjunə͵ket; kəˈmjuːnəkeIt or kəˈmjuːnIkeIt/v [I,T] if people communicate with each other, they give each other information by speaking, writing letters etc 与〔他人〕交流信息﹐沟通: We communicate by email. 我们用电子邮件沟通。+with It's difficult to communicate with people if you don’t speak their language. 要是不能说对方的语言就很难交流。communicate sth to sb the way a conductor communicates his or her ideas to the orchestra 指挥向乐团传达自己思想的方式A baby communicates its needs by crying. 婴儿用哭来表达需要。
communicatecommunicatecommunicatescommunicatedcommunicatingverb (communicates, communicating, communicated)to share and exchange information, ideas or feelings with somebody: Parents often find it difficult to communicate with their children.