I am, in like manner, inclined to believe that a monarch will always be able to convert legal practitioners into the most serviceable instruments of his authority. There is a far greater affinity between this class of individuals and the executive power than there is between them and the people; just as there is a greater natural affinity between the nobles and the monarch than between the nobles and the people, although the higher orders of society have occasionally resisted the prerogative of the Crown in concert with the lower classes.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
He represents the Hebrew, Phoenician, Syriac, and Chaldaic, as having also an affinity. He believes that there may also be an affinity between the two groups.英文原著 · 《The Scottish Philosophy》
The names Choromandel, Negapatam, and Tanjore are easy to distinguish in this list. "Bomgarin" I cannot identify, though the termination, GARIM, may represent GIRI, "mountain." "Dapatao" may be Devipatnam. "Truguel" seems to have some affinity with Tirukovil. It cannot be the "Truguel" mentioned by Barros and others as one of the fortresses given to Asada Khan by the king of Vijayanagar (above, p. 175), because those were close to Belgaum, while this "Truguel" was in the extreme south "Caullim" may be Kayal. [622] -- Above, p. 300, note 1. [623] -- Udayagiri.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
It is not likely that the characters in which the Bennettiteae resemble the Ferns came to them directly from ancestors belonging to that class; an extensive group of Seed-plants, the Pteridospermeae, existed in Palaeozoic times and bear evident marks of affinity with the Fern phylum. The fern- like characters so remarkably persistent in the highly organised Cycadophyta of the Mesozoic were in all likelihood derived through the Pteridosperms, plants which show an unmistakable approach to the cycadophytic type.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The existence of superficial resemblances between animals of various degrees of affinity must have been observed for hundreds of years. Among the early examples, the best known to me have been found in the manuscript note-books and collections of W.J. Burchell, the great traveller in Africa (1810-15) and Brazil (1825-30). The most interesting of his records on this subject are brought together in the following paragraphs.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Burchell recognised the wide difference in affinity, shown by the distance between the respective numbers; for his catalogue is arranged to represent relationships. He observed, what students of mimicry are only just beginning to note and record, the coincidence between model and mimic in time and space and in habits. We are justified in concluding that he observed the close superficial likeness although he does not in this case expressly allude to it.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
But somewhere during my early Oakland days, I built an affinity for the silver and black.美剧 · 《Billions》
We'll work the jury pool for maximum weakness and/or affinity.美剧 · 《Billions》
Good. And I think the court would show its certain let's say, affinity to corporation like North Guard and their rights.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Children like cupcakes, and, by giving them cupcakes, they'll transfer that affinity to me.美剧 · 《Young Sheldon》
Often prioritizing political and military utility over ethnic or religious affinity, Often prioritizing political and military utility over ethnic or religious affinity,演讲 · 《The rise of the Ottoman Empire ~ Mostafa Minawi》