Whereas if you connect with them on LinkedIn, now I've got not only the person's name and contact information, but I know what their prior jobs were.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

This is also important though for Roman politics, because if you're if a freedman, - or even if you're a free person-- sometimes see freemen would connect themselves to a powerful Roman who was higher status than them, because they could use him for important things.

同时对罗马政治也很重要，因为即使是自由人，甚至是自由民-,有时候也会依附有权有势,地位高于他们的罗马人，以谋求他们的帮助。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

So it's an image of Christ the suffering godhead: the very human, fleshly person who will part His own flesh in order to connect with, in order to redeem, the believer.

一具血肉之躯：,扒开自己的肉体,为了与信徒拉近，给他们以救赎。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选