Affinity

(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.

英格拉姆编辑

• 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. 维莱特.
• Any affinity to wantonness and intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• No two men can have less affinity between them, one would say, than Mr Twemlow and my husband. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Or any affinity to virtue in general? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• By the term systematic affinity is meant, the general resemblance between species in structure and constitution. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The degree of sterility does not strictly follow systematic affinity, but is governed by several curious and complex laws. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Since Thomasin's marriage Mrs. Yeobright had shown him that grim friendliness which at last arises in all such cases of undesired affinity. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Mere display left her with a sense of superior distinction; but she felt an affinity to all the subtler manifestations of wealth. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But let me ask you another question: Has excess of pleasure any affinity to temperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There seemed to be a near affinity between us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But the correspondence between systematic affinity and the facility of crossing is by no means strict. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In the same early morning, I discovered a singular affinity between seeds and corduroys. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In this case its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a curious and circuitous nature. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We can understand, on the above views, the very important distinction between real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• On these same principles we see how it is that the mutual affinities of the forms within each class are so complex and circuitous. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Whether they were dark whites of Iberian or Dravidian affinities is less certainly to be denied. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands were probably a northern people with remote Nordic affinities, the Hairy Ainu. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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