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akin [ə'kɪn]

a. 同类的, 同族的, 同源的

Spanish is akin to Latin.
西班牙语与拉丁语近似。
Pity is often akin to love.
怜悯常近乎于爱。
Pity is akin to love.
怜悯近乎爱情。

akin

[ adj ]

similar in quality or character

<adj.all>

a feeling akin to terror

kindred souls

the amateur is closely related to the collector

related by blood

<adj.all>

Akin \A*kin"\, a. [Pref. a- (for of) + kin.]
1. Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as,
the two families are near akin.

2. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the
same kind. ``A joy akin to rapture.'' --Cowper.

The literary character of the work is akin to its
moral character. --Jeffrey.

Note: This adjective is used only after the noun.
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In attempting to enter other markets, Ms. Thomas must apply the Chicago formula to cities that lack a central young-singles neighborhood akin to the Lincoln Park area.
On Friday, Mr. Seidman proposed a structure more akin to a corporate board, with a separate chief executive having greater authority.
The ratio, the banker said, is akin to the bankruptcy rate in the US and an index of 'prosperity' in a society that had hoarded foreign reserves of Dollars 90.99bn as at the end of August. Post-dated cheques have an important role.
To describe the plot of this bit of insanity is akin to writing a study guide to a Marvel Comic, but here goes.
But the accident investigation has found the weight of the train was about 8,900 tons, and that possibly only two of the locomotive had "dynamic braking" capability _ which Dickenson described as akin to downshifting on a car to help slow it.
Torpey said that one of the wounded women he was treating had expressed something akin to sympathy for Wesbecker when she learned, by police radio, that he had shot himself.
"Many view the airlines and airports as akin to the buses and bus terminals of 20 years ago: deteriorating, overcrowded, disappearing and depressing," said survey analyst Nicholas Tortorello.
Ideas floated include proposals for separate, but competing, currencies and a return to something akin to the former gold standard.
Moreover, both of these stories are tinted by a narrative self-consciousness that gives them a remoteness akin to that of sepia photographs.
If Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas were to win the presidential race, something akin to Oregon's benchmarks would probably be introduced on a national scale. The renaissance of state governments suggests a rethinking of their role is now overdue.
International consolidations are akin to playing three-dimensional chess through a mirror. All of this takes place at a time when computing has never been more 'personal.'
I truly felt I had achieved a golden moment in sports, akin to the 100-yard run or the grand-slam home run that I never could, nor never will, accomplish.
Indeed, it would provide the perfect opportunity to exhibit something akin to statesmanship by going beyond the instant heat of political passion to the more permanent concerns that will confront the Supreme Court as it lopes into the next century.
John Manners, a Swiss maintenance electrician who organized the so-called American Pony Drive, said driving a Ford Mustang across the United State is akin to an American driving a Porsche across Germany.
But Bank of New York has been arguing for some time that Northeast's true book value was something more closely akin to $12.31 a share, based on the deteriorating outlook for its real estate loan portfolio.
There's a customs duty of 30% (akin to the 25% duty the U.S. imposes on trucks imported from Japan) and a defense tax on imports of 2.5%.
Fortunately for Chief Jewett, Richford, and whoever their target was, the Canadians were more akin to the Three Stooges than to Carlos the Jackal.
The hourly shuttle operations are more akin to those found in a busy bus terminal than in airports.
'The technique would be akin to making alterations on a word processor,' says Sonin.
For the unconverted, the sound of improvisation is akin to tinnitus.
Today Mr. Seidman will propose a structure more akin to a corporate board with a separate chief executive officer.
Drug use is akin to catching a cold: "There is today widespread recognition of the fact that narcotics addiction is at bottom an illness to be treated and not a crime to be punished."
"Levin knows programming and cable and he's more akin to Steve Ross in style and background," said Mr. Hatch.
It may be a euphemism _ akin to "correctional institution" for prison _ but it's an ingeniously designed euphemism that often achieves its desired effect.
Police ahead with VASCAR." VASCAR is a device akin to a stop watch that calculates a car's speed by measuring the time it takes for a car to travel between two lines painted across the street.
But since June 4, proposing even partial privatization has become akin to treason.
He is possessed of an authentic totalitarian impulse of his own, akin to Lenin's or Stalin's or Hitler's, but uncorrupted by power.
But the banks fell into two traps akin to those that snared them in property lending.
The gun lobby was instrumental in knocking off Mr Brooks in Texas, accusing him of apostasy on gun control. A constant national strain, most virulent in the south and its borders, was distrust and a dislike akin to hatred of Mr Clinton himself.
I suppose it is akin to my taking on Prof.

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