| 词汇 | affiliate |
| 词源 | affiliate. “Adopted” is the meaning of the Latin affileatus, composed of ad, “to,” and filius, “son,” from which the word af- filiate derives. Thus a smaller company affiliated with a larger one could be said to have been adopted by the parent corpora- tion. The word is first recorded by Tobias Smollett in Gil Blas (1761). |
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