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belonging to

/bih-lawng, -long/US // bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ //UK // (bɪˈlɒŋ) //

属于,属

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    • : to be in the relation of a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc.: He belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
    • : to have the proper qualifications, especially social qualifications, to be a member of a group: You don't belong in this club.
    • : to be proper or due; be properly or appropriately placed, situated, etc.: Books belong in every home. This belongs on the shelf. He is a statesman who belongs among the great.
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    • : belong to, to be the property of: The book belongs to her.to be a part or adjunct of: That cover belongs to this jar.

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  • Imagine what we could achieve — the coalition we are building this very season, gathering progressives and moderates, independents and even former Republicans, to help build a future where everyone belongs.

  • At the time, they both belonged to very small minorities in the US.

  • The school board also plans to hold an equity workshop – with help from the San Diego County Office of Education – to decide what belongs in a new equity policy, initially drafted by the California School Boards Association.

  • Moreover, Google allows you to choose from a vast assortment of fanbases, such that those belonging to the travel and tourism, global business, the sports world, and the others.

  • Months later, without asking McGlone, the university then narrowed the request to just three email accounts belonging to the chancellor, environmental health and safety director and the campus emergency manager.

  • He also earned a Grammy and platinum record for “Up Where We Belong.”

  • They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.

  • “For the record, I do not believe unions belong in government—including the police force,” Sherk said in an e-mail.

  • “Most Jamaicans are religious and belong to fundamentalist Christian denominations,” he said.

  • Others earn our admiration because they belong more to a particular moment.

  • The seeds, however, are so small that the variety to which they belong cannot be determined except by planting or sowing them.

  • I should judge from the streets that not more than one-fourth of the females of Galway belong to the shoe-wearing aristocracy.

  • The leukocytes of pus, pus-corpuscles, belong almost wholly to this variety.

  • He explained quietly that he did not belong here, but was making a tour of the parishes of Wurttemberg and Baden.

  • The great majority belong to the colon bacillus group, and are negative to Gram's method of staining.