elective affinity是什么意思_elective affinity的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

The "elective affinity" means the two do not cause each other, but they tend to vary together.

“选择性亲和”指的是此两者非因果关系，而是相互改变和相互改更。
The basic proposition of this essay is, using a term borrowed from Weber, that there is an elective affinity between the new times cooperation and the new state-society relationship.

本文的一个基本命题是：当代中国的农民合作与新型国家—社会关系的构建具有韦伯意义上的选择性亲和关系。

释义

a correspondence with, or feeling of sympathy or attraction towards, a particular idea, attitude, or person

（对某种思想、态度或某人的）有择亲和力。

词源

"mid 18th cent. （as elective attraction）： originally a technical term for the preferential combination of chemical substances, it was widely used figuratively in the 19th cent., notably by Goethe （in his novel Die Wahlverwandschaften ‘Elective Affinities'） and by Weber （in describing the correspondence between aspects of Protestantism and capitalism）."