Conquered peoples would trade their defeated god for the victorious god of their conquerors and eventually there would be a cultural and religious assimilation, intermarriage.

胜利者所信仰的神,自然就取代了被征服民族的神,最终就产生了文化，宗教间的,同化和通婚现象。

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So, assimilation would be the act of expanding the range of things that you respond to.

同化是指,反应范围的扩大

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If you ever read the course descriptions of French 115 or chinese language, basic intro to Chinese, they say--I think I wrote it down here, this process of gradual assimilation.

如果你们曾经读过法语115课程描述,或者中文,也就是基础中文课程的介绍,我想我应该在这写下来了,那上面提到,这是一种逐步同化的过程

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But the tribal structure of Israelite society that would develop would be strengthened by the natural division of the land into these separate geographical areas that only reinforced the tribalization of society. And these local tribes probably did assimilate elements of the local population.

但是以色列社会的部落形态却会发展,被不断地加强,因为土地自然划分为分离的地理区域,这加强了社会的部落化，这些当地的部落,很可能同化了当地人口的特点。

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It's as if Sal's first experience of Dean is already, in that scene, assimilated into the image of Dean: the disembodied, aesthetic image of Dean.

这好像是Sal第一次在那情景下，感到迪恩已经被同化成迪恩的形象：,空洞的，美的迪恩的形象。

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You could expand it to encompass new things, assimilation.

你将新信息纳入已有的认知结构中,便是同化

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