朗文词典: plural series [countable usually singular] 1 series of something several events or actions of a similar type that happen one after the other: the series of events that led to the outbreak of war The police are investigating a series of attacks in the area. There's been a whole series of accidents on this road. 2planned events a group of events or actions that are planned to happen one after the other series of This autumn the BBC will be showing a series of French films. Staff will hold a series of meetings over the next few weeks. a summer lecture series 3TCBtv/radio a set of television or radio programmes that have the same characters or deal with the same type of subject, and are usually broadcast every week or several times a week: a new comedy series 4books/articles etc several books, articles etc that deal with the same subject or tell stories about the same characters series of a series of articles on community care a science fiction series 5similar things several things of the same kind series of a series of laws against discrimination The area is linked by a series of canals. 6sport a set of sports games played between the same two teams the World Series (=in baseball) Test series (=in cricket) 7 in series technicalTEE being connected so that electricity passes though the parts of something electrical in the correct order |