Affinity
[ə'fɪnɪtɪ] or [ə'fɪnəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; 'an affinity for politics'; 'the mysterious affinity between them'; 'James's affinity with Sam'.
(noun.) inherent resemblance between persons or things.
(noun.) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; 'basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk'.
(noun.) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody.
(noun.) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; 'found a natural affinity with the immigrants'; 'felt a deep kinship with the other students'; 'anthropology's kinship with the humanities'.
(noun.) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; 'in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans'.
(noun.) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship.
英格拉姆編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.
(n.) Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
(n.) Companionship; acquaintance.
(n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.
(n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
(n.) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.
卡洛整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Relationship (by marriage), KIN, CONSANGUINITY, propinquity.[2]. Resemblance, likeness, relation, correlation, analogy, connection, similarity, similitude, parallelism, correspondence, parity, sympathy.[3]. (Chem.) Attraction.
手打:玛吉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Relationship, relation, kindred, conformity, connection, alliance, similarity,analogy, homogeneity, harmony, correlativeness, sympathy, interdependence,interconnection, intercommunity
ANT:Dissimilarity, discordance, disconnection, independence, antagonism, antipathy,repugnance, interrepulsiveness
手打:撒迪厄斯
解釋/意思:
n. nearness of kin agreement or resemblance: causal relationship: structural resemblance between languages of ultimately common origin: structural resemblance between plants animals or minerals pointing to identity of stock: relationship by marriage opposed to consanguinity or relationship by blood: (B.) social relationship: the spiritual relationship between sponsors and their godchild: a mysterious attraction supposed to exist between two persons: (chem.) the peculiar attraction between the atoms of two simple substances that makes them combine to form a compound.—adj. Affin′itive.
汉娜錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Complimentary term for your husband or your wife. Sometimes a synonym for 'Your finish.'
巴尔托迪編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Even that one touch of colour visible in the red satin pincushion bore affinity to coral; even that dark, shining glass might have mirrored a mermaid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Any affinity to wantonness and intemperance? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- No two men can have less affinity between them, one would say, than Mr Twemlow and my husband. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Or any affinity to virtue in general? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- By the term systematic affinity is meant, the general resemblance between species in structure and constitution. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Mr. Nairne, in 1777, was the first to discover the affinity that sulphuric acid had for water vapor, and in 1810 Leslie froze water by this means. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- One of his sayings may be quoted here: It is impossible to withdraw from the world, and associate with birds and beasts that have no affinity with us. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The degree of sterility does not strictly follow systematic affinity, but is governed by several curious and complex laws. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Since Thomasin's marriage Mrs. Yeobright had shown him that grim friendliness which at last arises in all such cases of undesired affinity. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- But let me ask you another question: Has excess of pleasure any affinity to temperance? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There seemed to be a near affinity between us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But the correspondence between systematic affinity and the facility of crossing is by no means strict. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In the same early morning, I discovered a singular affinity between seeds and corduroys. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In this case its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a curious and circuitous nature. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The principle on which Lithography depends is the different chemical affinities of water for oily and for earthy substances, which cause it to run off from the one and adhere to the other. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- We can understand, on the above views, the very important distinction between real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- On these same principles we see how it is that the mutual affinities of the forms within each class are so complex and circuitous. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It was not in Bertha's habits to be neighbourly, much less to make advances to any one outside the immediate circle of her affinities. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Whether they were dark whites of Iberian or Dravidian affinities is less certainly to be denied. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands were probably a northern people with remote Nordic affinities, the Hairy Ainu. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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