arrangement /əˈreɪndʒmənt/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-COUNT Arrangements are plans and preparations that you make so that something will happen or be possible. 安排

  例：

  The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit.

  工作人员在紧张忙碌地为该峰会做最后的安排。

  例：

  She telephoned Ellen, but made no arrangements to see her.

  她给埃伦打了电话，但没安排见她。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT An arrangement is an agreement that you make with someone to do something. 商定 [also 'by' N]

  例：

  The caves can be visited only by prior arrangement.

  这些洞穴只能预约参观。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT An arrangement of things, for example, flowers or furniture, is a group of them displayed in a particular way. 布置

  例：

  The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements.

  该房子那时经常装饰着富有创意的插花。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT If someone makes an arrangement of a piece of music, they change it so that it is suitable for particular voices or instruments, or for a particular performance. (乐曲的) 改编

  例：

  ...an arrangement of a well-known piece by Mozart.

  …对莫扎特的一首名曲的改编。