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- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex结构; 构造：
the two sentences have equivalent syntactic structures.
这两个句子具有相同的句法结构。
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- the organization of a society or other group and the relations between its members, determining its working机构; 组织; 体系。
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- a building or other object constructed from several parts建筑物; （由不同部分构成的）结构物。
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- mass noun the quality of being organized条理（性）：
we shall use three headings to give some structure to the discussion.
为使讨论有条理, 我们将列三个标题。
with obj.(常作 be structured)
- construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to建造; 组织, 安排; 赋予…结构, 使形成结构：
services must be structured so as to avoid pitfalls.
服务业必须形成层次结构以免隐患。
派生词
structureless
adjective词源
late Middle English (denoting the process of building)： from Old French, or from Latin structura, from struere 'to build'. The verb is rarely found before the 20th cent.