hooking up

基本解释

The business center on the second floor has various kinds of business services, i. e. Internet hooking-up, photocopy, facsimile, printing, mail and boardroom rent etc.
宾馆二楼的商务中心特别开展上网、复印、传真、打印、寄信、会议室租赁等业务服务。
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The researchers also had these same people experience physical pain during the brain scans - by hooking up a device to their left forearm that delivered a painful (but tolerable) feeling of heat.
与此同时，研究者在他们的前臂连接一个带电装置，这样可以感到微微发热（可以忍受）的疼痛感。
In the 1980s they moved into America, hooking up with Chinese-American firms engaged in trans-Pacific trade.
在上世纪80年代的时候他们搬去了美国，开始了与从事跨太平洋贸易的美国华人企业的合作。

Since none of the five PCs we own has two VGA-out video ports (and we couldn't be bothered to track down a DVI adapter), we ended up hooking the DS-1500 up to both of our Media Center PCs.
ENGADGET: Review of the DoubleSight DS-1500
For all the fun that twenty-somethings are having hooking up with their Hornivores, their Sonnets, and their Poolboys, it turns out that the fastest-growing online-dating demographic is people over fifty—a function perhaps of expanding computer literacy and diminished opportunity.
NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone
As far as connectivity goes, you've got three USB ports, as well as micro-HDMI for hooking this up to your PC.
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