单词 | kindred |
释义 | kin·dred I. 1. a. plural kindreds < every kindred, every tribe on this terrestrial ball — Edward Perronet > < among the winter-scourged kindreds — C.G.D.Roberts > b. (1) < the kindred has an organic quality; what happens to the individual member is felt by the whole group — A.D.Rees > (2) < if his kindred still remain to him — Alexis de Tocqueville > c. < study the incidence of cancer among members of a kindred > 2. archaic a. < a secret match … raised him to kindred with the throne — J.R.Green > b. < thy kindred with the great of old — Alfred Tennyson > II. 1. a. < pamphlets of a kindred sort — G.C.Sellery > < an auditorium for concerts, lectures, and kindred events > b. < kindred spirit > < kindred arts of music, painting and letters — Elinor Wylie > < kindred Germanic languages > < sound waves … penetrate to the listener's inner ear and there set up kindred vibrations — Charlton Laird > 2. archaic a. < countries … already occupied by their kindred tribes — Edward Gibbon > b. < what kindred crime … am I decreed to expiate — Tobias Smollett > |
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