construction

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construction的基本意思是“建造,建设”,常用于指抽象的事物，如经济建设、现代化建设等。用于具体事物时表示某一“建造物,建筑物”,还可表示建筑物的“结构”,引申用于文学中可表示短语、句子等的“结构”,即“造句法”。construction用于正式文体中还可表示“解释,意思”,常与介词on〔upon〕连用。
construction在句中有时可用作定语修饰其他名词。
construction与reconstruction区别：construction是“建设”，而reconstruction是“重建”。例：urban construction（城市建设）,capital construction（基本建设）；
constructional work和construction work都指“建筑工程”，但前者较常见；
constructional worker和construction worker都指“建筑工人”，但后者较常见。

(BUILDING) the work of building or making something, especially buildings, bridges, etc.
(LANGUAGE) the way in which the words in a sentence or phrase are arranged
to understand something in a particular way

Construction is the building of things such as houses, factories, roads, and bridges.
The construction of something such as a vehicle or machine is the making of it.
The construction of something such as a system is the creation of it.
You use construction to refer to the structure of something and the way it has been built or made.
You can refer to an object that has been built or made as a construction.
A grammatical construction is a particular arrangement of words in a sentence, clause, or phrase.