affinity
/əˈfɪnɪti/ 名词 C1中文： 亲和力
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
- A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- Any romantic relationship.
- A love interest; a paramour.
- Any passionate love for something.
- Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”
Wickham--when she read, with somewhat clearer attention, a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself--her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
There are certain affinities between the persons we quit and those we meet afterwards.
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