collaborate在MW English Learners’ Dictionary的解釋是 to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something.; cooperate則是 to be helpful by doing what someone asks or tells you to do. 雖然都是一群人一起做一件事, cooperate是配合別人做事, 像是和檢察官合作. collaborate則是團隊合作, 大家都是平等的, 沒有誰命令誰做事.