将“affiliate”分解为“af-fil-iate”。想象一个(af)像小燕子的翅膀,每一边的翅膀上(fil)都有一个“-i”符号,翅膀(iate)向一个中心点(like a hub)聚集。这样,你就可以将“affiliate”想象成一个代表分支机构或成员的“小燕子翅膀向中心聚集”,帮助记忆这个单词的含义为“分支机构”或“附属会员”。
1761, from Latin affiliatus, past participle of affiliare "to adopt" (see affiliation). Outside legal use, always figurative. Related: Affiliated; affiliating.
权威例句
1. Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.
我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业.
2. The Government will not allow the staff association to affiliate with outside unions.
政府不会允许其公务员协会与外部工会有紧密联系。
3. He said he wanted to affiliate with a U.S. firm because he needed "expert advice and counsel in legal affairs".
他说他因为需要“在法律事务上得到专家的意见和建议”,所以想与一家美国律师事务所建立合作关系。
4. All youth groups will have to affiliate to the National Youth Agency.
所有青年团体必须并入全国青年事务处。
5. They tried to affiliate that play to its author.
他们试图追寻那个剧本的作者.
词语辨析
【append, affiliate, attach, link】
这组词都有“附加”的意思,其区别是:
append: v.增加,附加(与attach的意思比较接近)。
• The lawyer appended two more pages to the contract. 律师在合同后又附加了两页。
affiliate: v.加入,成为……一部分。
• an affiliated middle school 一所附属中学
attach: v.将某物系在、贴在、附在另一物上。
• I attached a note to my report with a paper clip. 我用别针将一张字条别在报告的后面。
link: v.将人或物连接起来。
• The crowd linked arms to form a barrier. 群众臂挽着臂组成人墙。