Couch surfers tend to see themselves as part of a tribe; unlike two people hooking up at a bar, they meet under an altruistic premise.

沙发冲浪者视自己为一个部落的成员；不像在酒吧里面邂逅的两个人，他们是在利他主义的前提下相遇。

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The only really good way to learn a language is by hooking up with a native speaker.

学习外语的唯一真正好的方法是结交一个[以那门语言为母语的朋友]。

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What are you hoping to gain by hooking up with this guy?

和这个男生牵连在一起你想得到什么呢？

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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

But is hooking up -- and its sometimes bittersweet emotions -- just part of life?

CNN: Young adults and a hookup culture

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