There are three ways a name can be associated with its binding: as a definition, declaration, or reference.

有三种方式将名称与其绑定联合在一起：定义、声明或引用。

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Because I allow both a method call and a property call to work as a definition query, I must write at least two tests in Listing 14.

因为我同时允许让方法调用和属性调用作为定义查询，因此在清单14中必须编写至少两个测试。

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In this document, the term class will be used as a definition and the term object will be used to represent a physical instance of this definition.

在本文档中，类一词用于定义，而对象一词用于表示该定义的一个具体实例。

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It's kind of like religion by definition is a communal activity and so as what you're trying to do is a lot of... building skills among groups.

可能宗教本身,就是种集体性的活动，你们所做的,也就是培养集体生活的技能。

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I'm going to give you a glass case and in the glass case is an entity with this as one kilogram, by definition.

我给你一个玻璃箱,箱子里放的东西刚好是 1 千克,这是根据定义的

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So, what a bank actually does is borrow short and lend long: Brad Delong has used this as a definition of a bank.

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The report offers this as a definition to be used when the police and local authorities are logging reports of alleged racist incidents, either as a prelude to investigating them or to collect statistics on the incidence of racism.

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Leslie Caron offers as pure a definition of grande dame as you are likely to find.

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