an association

基本解释

Join, and be active in, an association.
参加一个协会并在里面积极的表现。
This will show the relationship between them as an association.
这样将会作为一个联合显示它们之间的关系。
Onlya player who is registered with an association to play for one of its clubs isadmitted to competitions organised by this association or by the confederationconcerned.
球员只有在某一协会注册，从而为该协会下属俱乐部参赛时，方被允许参加该协会及有关洲足联的比赛。

He was an important influence in the founding of the American Association of University Professors and the American Civil Liberties Union."
First comes the family, then an association of families in a tribe, then a further association in a village, and then you might say an association of villages that create a polis or a city.
首先是家庭，然后是众多家庭的结合形成部落，再扩大形成村庄，然后是村庄的结合,创造出了城邦或城市。
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And what this is in a very general sense is the learning of an association between one stimulus and another stimulus, where stimulus is a technical term meaning events in the environment like a certain smell or sound or sight.
一般来说,经典条件作用是指在一个刺激,和另一个刺激之间形成联结，这里的刺激是一个专业术语,意思是环境中出现的事件,比如某种味道，声音或景观。
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There were about a half dozen celebrities involved and only Ho had an association with Samsung.
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