Kinship ***

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–noun 

1. the state 

or 

fact of being of kin; family relationship.  



2. relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity.  



—Synonyms 

1. See relationship. 1, 2. connection. 2. bearing.



affinity, 

consanguinity 

[kon-sang-gwin-i-tee] 

血親;同族



Relationship, kinship refer to connection with others by blood or by marriage. 



Relationship can be applied to connection either by birth or by marriage: relationship to a ruling family. 



Kinship generally denotes common descent and implies a more intimate connection than relationship: the [ties] and [obligations] of kinship. 





condescend

He would not condescend to [misrepresent] the facts. 

He condescended to [their intellectual level] in order to be [understood].  

descend

下來,下降,為...的後裔

progeny

scion

fetus 

pedigree



affinity 

kinship kith and kin

propensity

penchant proclivity

predilection

Tenuous









　

Founded on a 600-page script (by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli) and some 240 sets, The Best of Youth derives its formidable energies from the same yin-yang sibling dynamic as its direct antecedents: Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers and Gianni Amelio's The Way We Laughed. 



Beaming, [jocular] Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and sensitive, 

[tightly] coiled Matteo (Alessio Boni, who [bears] a striking resemblance [to] the young Clint Eastwood), 



born a year apart, are university students when we meet them in 1966. Matteo volunteers at a clinic for the mentally ill, where he encounters Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), an obvious victim of botched electroshock treatment; with his brother's help, Matteo tries and fails to return Giorgia to her rural relations. 



While The Best of Youth hardly delivers any Bellocchio-style smackdowns to the cult of the family—if anything, the film idealizes blood ties via the Caratis—it does recognize how unusually lucky Nicola and Matteo (and their two sisters) 



are in their easeful kinship 



during the excruciating moment when Giorgia's father smiles nervously and tells her it's time to go back to the hospital. 





ransack rummage

fumble bumble bungle botch 

Fray



pang

[a] pang of [remorse] 

hunger pang[s] cf. fang

travail 

the [pangs] of [childbirth]

respite

to [toil] without respite 

menstrual

menstrual [cramp][s]

excruciate

expiate penance

Beleaguer