coherence: being (of ideas, thoughts, speech, reasoning, etc) connected logically or consistently; easy to understand; clear.
连贯性，一致性。可以理解为观念、思想、言论、推理合乎逻辑；前后一致；让人易懂。For an administration ready to spend billions on a "cash for clunkers" programme, its policies are inconsistent.
对于一个准备投入数十亿美元开展“旧车换现金”计划的政府来说，其政策不具有连贯性。This book is a systematic treatment of one of these fields--the broad area that deals with the coherence and fluctuation of light.
这本书是有系统的对这些领域之一的处理--处理光的连贯性和波动的辽阔的地区。Obviously we lacked a bit of continuity, today it went badly and we went on the pitch interpreting badly the game.
很明显，目前球队缺少一点连贯性，这场比赛走势很糟糕，表现也很不尽如人意。Every once and a while we suffer too much, even today we lacked a bit of continuity.
每一次或一段时间我们没有做到，就是今天我们还是缺少一些连贯性。I intend to tell you a little about the early work on the nematode to put it into an intellectual perspective.
为了本次演讲的知识连贯性，我会讲一些关于线虫的早期工作。Deliver your words like a flow of water. Speak to the point, be clear and maintain continuity.
你的话语要像流水一样顺畅，语言要中肯、简洁，并保持连贯性。During the delivery of information, it has values of economy, coherence and shift of information focus, to name only a few.
在信息的传递中，语用预设发挥了简洁性，连贯性和焦点转移等作用；His world has come crumbling down and while you can't pick it up for him, you can provide continuity by being exactly as before.
他的世界正在倒塌，尽管你不能帮他恢复这一切，但你可以表现得一如以往，保持一种连贯性。