arrangement

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

The staff is working frantically on final arrangements for the summit. 工作人員在緊張忙碌地為該峰會做最后的安排。

She telephoned Ellen, but made no arrangements to see her. 她給埃倫打了電話，但沒安排見她。

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

The caves can be visited only by prior arrangement. 這些洞穴只能預(yù)約參觀。

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

The house was always decorated with imaginative flower arrangements. 該房子那時經(jīng)常裝飾著富有創(chuàng)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. (樂曲的) 改編

...an arrangement of a well-known piece by Mozart. …對莫扎特的一首名曲的改編。