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As a noun, an organization or business officially connected to a bigger one — a local TV station that is an affiliate of a national network, for example. As a verb, to affiliate means to officially join or connect with a larger group. You'll also see "affiliate marketing," where someone earns money by promoting another company's products online.
(名詞)附屬機構、加盟商；(動詞)使隸屬、加盟
組成From Latin affiliare, literally "to adopt as a son" (ad- "to" + filius "son").
同家族的字
- filialshares the Latin root filius, meaning son
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
affiliatenoun/əˈfɪl.i.ət/
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Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
- Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.
- They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.
affiliateverb/əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/
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To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
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to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
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To fix the paternity of
- to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
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To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
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To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。