kindred.
亲属,亲属关系,亲缘关系,亲情
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- ›a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or clan.
- ›relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship.
- ›natural relationship; affinity.
adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›associated by origin, nature, qualities, etc.: kindred languages.
- ›having the same belief, attitude, or feeling: We are kindred spirits on the issue of gun control.
- ›related by birth or descent; having kinship: kindred tribes.
- ›belonging to kin or relatives: kindred blood.
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Examples
Haitians held an elaborate funeral in absentia for the abolitionist John Brown, who they saw as a kindred spirit.
Russell even dedicates the book to the memory of her own mother, who, she says, saw Roosevelt as a role model and had a kindred creative and intellectual energy.
Ordinarily that would be true, but, in a stroke of good luck, my girlfriend is a kindred spirit.
I hope we remember we don’t have to make a case for how alike we are to be kindred.
He encountered new vistas and met future collaborators, including Michael Atiyah, a kindred spirit whose mathematical homes in algebraic geometry and topology perfectly complemented Is’ expertise in differential geometry and analysis.
I learned some things from my younger self—the adventurous, kindred spirit.
So, to take his mind off things, he logs into a phone sex chatroom and connects with a woman whom he thinks is a kindred spirit.
Just me, my 95-year-old dad, and tens of thousands of our kindred spirits.
When I realized that I had a committed group of readers—kindred spirits, really—with whom I could share things.
Kramer and Billy are spirits, but Kramer accuses Billy of being blinded by the seductions of capitalism.