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　　participate

　　vi. 参加某事; 分享某事;

　　vt.得到或接受某部分东西;

　　例句：

　　They expected him to participate in the ceremony.

　　他们希望他参加典礼。

　　其他：

　　第三人称单数：participates 现在分词：participating 过去式：participated过去分词：participated

　　Banners are being put up along the route that the king's cortege will follow.

　　Soldiers dressed in ceremonial outfits have been gathering outside the palace, where the grass appears to have been freshly laid overnight.

　　The king's body will be moved from Siriraj Hospital to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace.

　　Later in the evening on Friday, the Crown Prince will conduct the bathing ceremony of the king's body, a traditional Thai Buddhist funeral rite.

　　The king had been ill for a long time. When news of his death was announced on Thursday evening, many in the large crowds outside the hospital where he died broke down.

　　King Bhumibol was widely respected across Thailand, and thought of by many as semi-divine.

　　He earned the devotion of Thais for his efforts to help the rural poor, such as agricultural development projects, and works of charity.

　　The monarch was also seen as a stabilising figure in a country often wracked by political turmoil.

　　Thailand remains under military rule following a coup in 2014.

　　The country has suffered from political violence and upheaval over the past decade, as well as a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency in the southern provinces which sees regular small-scale bomb attacks.

　　Though a constitutional monarch with limited official powers, many Thais looked to King Bhumibol to intervene in times of high tension. He was seen as a unifying and calming influence through numerous coups and 20 constitutions.