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[S]alikingorsympathyfor someone or something,especiallybecause ofsharedcharacteristics: （尤指因为有相同的特征而引起的）情投意合，喜爱，吸引 Sheseemsto have anaturalaffinityfor/withwater.她好像天生就喜欢水。 [CorU]aclosesimilaritybetween two things: 类同；雷同 There are severalcloseaffinitiesbetweenthe twopaintings.这两幅画有多处非常相似的地方。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAttracting and tempting - allure
- alluringly
- arrest
- attract
- attraction
- charisma
- charm offensive
- charm the pants offsomeoneidiom
- chum
- clickbait
- glamour
- honey trap
- incentive
- jump out atsomeone
- lure
- tempt
- temptation
- temptingly
- ticklesomeone'sfancyidiom
- va-va-voom
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: affinity| American Dictionaryaclosesimilaritybetween two things, or anattractionorsympathyfor someone or something,esp. because ofsharedcharacteristics: [C]Manypeoplereallyfeelan affinity for/withdolphins. Examplesofaffinityaffinity The affinities have been clearly displayed, and the points of disagreement brought into unmistakeable view.From theCambridge English Corpus The statistical-thermodynamic basis for computation of binding affinities : a critical review.From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, effective responses to stimuli may require weak intrinsic affinities to assure sufficient interfacial plasticity for the expression of ligand-induced conformational changes.From theCambridge English Corpus Binding affinities of host-guest, protein-ligand, and protein-transition-state complexes.From theCambridge English Corpus A protein's selectivity for a particular nucleotide, for example, is quantified in terms of its relative affinities for two different, but similar, nucleotides.From theCambridge English Corpus Parties often appeared to be factional alliances, and the recruitment of members was only vaguely based on common interests and ideological affinities.From theCambridge English Corpus Marxism and nationalism were closely intertwined both by their contingent, ambivalent alliances and by their contingent conceptual affinities in many areas.From theCambridge English Corpus While modernity may have gone wrong, while it may not have yielded the culture, affinities, and social promises it intended, it is still modernity.From theCambridge English Corpus The final chapter on pigmentation considers the likely biological significance of a trait much used in the determination of racial affinities.From theCambridge English Corpus We detail two extensions to the simple scheme: the first overcomes the loss of lexical affinities, and the second facilitates enhanced information gathering.From theCambridge English Corpus Instead, the concept of three ' sorts of people ' expressed a rudimentary perception of broad, rough-edged affinities between occupations of similar wealth, administrative power, and prestige.From theCambridge English Corpus Chemists could determine the laws of affinities by comparing their forces with the repulsive force of caloric.From theCambridge English Corpus The physico-chemistry of affinities and of fermentation, which concerns respiration, chyliation, glandular secretion, reproduction, etc., does not modify the givens of the problem.From theCambridge English Corpus If they could only be unraveled, these hierarchies of interlocking affinities might bring order to the realm of chemistry.From theCambridge English Corpus The halogens, with their large electron affinities, are the best negative ion candidates.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithaffinityaffinityThese are words often used in combination withaffinity. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. affinity group Each agent was placed into one of several affinity groups, and a congregation is stable if and only if it contains only members of the sameaffinitygroup. From theCambridge English Corpus binding affinity Consider a combination of three binding motifs that cause increased binding affinity, and thus an increase in expression levels. From theCambridge English Corpus close affinity And here we discern acloseaffinitywith the phenomenological theme of authenticity. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |