Definition of fraternal in English:

fraternal

adjective frəˈtəːn(ə)lfrəˈtərnl

1Of or like a brother or brothers.
兄弟的；兄弟般的
his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me
他如此不讲兄弟情谊使我震惊。
Example sentencesExamples
- Again and again, the treacherous brother in the fraternal allegory puts personal, material ambition over ‘natural’ family loyalty, law and order, spiritual and communal values.
- But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered.
- Our disagreements are fraternal, and we support each other whenever there are judicial problems.
- Monogamy is the norm, although some Tibetan-speaking peoples practice fraternal polyandry (two brothers may marry the same woman).
- He never betrayed the solemn fraternal oath he and his brothers swore before their mother Sheikha Salaama not to murder each other.
- Their quirky relationship oscillates between paternal and fraternal, part father-son, part Wright brothers.
- How I reconcile this with impending fraternal birthday present purchasing, imminent Christmas gift buying, forthcoming silly season drunkenness and my existing overdraft and credit card debt, I really do not know.
- Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.
- Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
- Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love.
- Despite John's objections to psychological explanations, the mother functions as the sexualized prize and arbiter in this fraternal rivalry when the brothers come to blows on her doorstep.
- But then Barkulkul deviates from fraternal expectations-he kills his brother, plants him like a long yam and covers his corpse with a bunch of bananas.
- The fraternal duo have established themselves as one of Britain's most original electronic acts, gaining a reputation for excellent live shows and ambitious recordings.
- This fraternal tension stresses Philippe, especially now that their mother has died, because André is the only family he has left.
- No, it does not achieve the sensation of the friend's living embrace or the shock of a fraternal admonition.
- You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
- Here, he uses the metaphor of the moon to reflect the dark side of all human relations-this time, in a semi-autobiographical take on fraternal friction.
- The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz.
- Looking down my list, it struck me that all of my chosen stories are about love in some of its myriad forms: romantic, fraternal, perverse, unrequited, frustrated, self-sacrificing and destructive.
- Henri spent the last eleven years of his life nourishing genius, both with his cuisine and with the fraternal devotion of a big brother.
Synonyms
sibling
1. 1.1 Of or denoting an organization for people, especially men, that have common interests or beliefs.
  兄弟会的；协会的
  a network of political clubs and fraternal organizations
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oriental dress and regalia were adopted by fraternal organizations such as the Shriners, who wore fezzes and named their newly built Eastern style buildings after cities in Syrin, Iraq, and Egypt.
  It is a fraternal order whose basic principles are philanthropy, truth and brotherly love.
  There has to be a recommitted partnership among colleges and universities, graduate chapters and regional/national officials of Black fraternal organizations to address this problem.
  While it is true that most fraternal organizations excluded blacks and women as full members, so too did the vast majority of political associations and labor unions during the same period.
  It may be wiser to form into fraternal organizations, professional societies, and institutes of study than to continue with formal certification models.
  They have organized themselves, however, through mutual aid societies as well as civic, educational, social, and fraternal organizations.
  Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church-based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs.
  Later, Romanian immigrants gathered at the headquarters of mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations where they discussed news from Romania, read or wrote letters, and sang religious or popular songs.
  Shortly before the Civil War, the fraternity regrouped and became the model for dozens of other fraternal organizations that enjoyed tremendous popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  The project team recruited potential study participants by working with churches, community and fraternal organizations, funeral homes, African American businesses, and universities.
  This early form of communalism has been translated into today's world by the plethora of Polish American fraternal organizations.
  Around the same time, many lay Roman Catholic organizations were also founded; fraternal and social organizations were formed for men, women, workers, students, and other lay groups.
  The convenience sample was recruited from fraternal organizations, health fairs, and churches in a Midwestern community.
  If you don't have access to employer-provided health care, join a fraternal or professional organization to get access to insurance at group rates.
  Risk tests will be distributed through a variety of community channels including social-service, faith-based, grass-roots and fraternal organizations and retail outlets.
  These people were not allowed to join the fraternal organizations that had been previously established by and for white people, so they sought to form their own social organizations throughout the country.
  Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn.
  It pointed to evidence of declining participation in a variety of civic arenas - politics, churches, labor unions, parent-teacher organizations and fraternal organizations.
  The armies and athletic teams and fraternal orders of the world have uniforms, flags, toasts, songs, music handed down from one generation to the next, all as reminders that others have gone this way before and succeeded.
  This is evident both in their declining numbers, as well as in the decreasing number of their ethnic institutions, churches, cultural organizations, and fraternal organizations.
2(of twins) developed from separate ova and therefore genetically distinct and not necessarily of the same sex or more similar than other siblings.
（双胞胎）异卵双生的。比较IDENTICAL （义项1）
Compare with identical (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
- A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability.
- Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical.
- Heritability is usually measured by concordance between parents and children, or between identical and fraternal twins.
- The remaining two-thirds of twins are fraternal, resulting from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm.
- Identical twins have the same genotype, while fraternal twins share on average only 50% of the same genes.
- But some research suggests that parents, teachers, peers and others may treat identical twins more similarly than fraternal twins.
- Some even thought of us as fraternal twins because I used to dress just like him and follow him around everywhere he went.
- There are generally two different types of twins recognized, fraternal and identical.
- Ordinary siblings and fraternal twins have only 50 percent of their genes in common.
- The study found that the identical twins were more similar in personality traits than the fraternal twins.
- Fifteen miles away, its fraternal twin, Ball's Pyramid, towers to a height of 1,811 feet, so sheer it seems two dimensional to the people in boats which pass in its shadow.
- Comparisons of identical and fraternal twins show that there is a strong genetic component to how people respond to lousy childhood environments.
- One particularly good test system with which to quantify disease heritability is a twin study, in which disease frequency is compared between cohorts of identical twins and fraternal twins.
- The fraternal twins had just turned two a week ago.
- The disease occurs in 30% of identical twins but in only 5% of fraternal twins.

Derivatives

fraternalism

noun

This may be seen today in corporate uniforms (airlines, hotels), identification badges, shoulder-tabs, and arm-bands; regimental and old school ties are merely rose-tinted nostalgia for lost fraternalism.
Example sentencesExamples
- Its members found and formed a locus in which to exercise aspects of adult masculinity - quiet repose, self-culture, and fraternalism - while maintaining a safe distance from the dreadful delights of London.
- Have we become too accustomed to it, wrongly seeing in it a symbol for joy and fraternalism?
- This instinct manifests itself throughout our culture: nationalism, regionalism, religion, fraternalism, sports fans, loyalty to your school, and racism.
- In the 1920s, a number of popular service organizations like the Rotary appropriated fraternalism's ability to encourage business contacts and public benevolence but stripped away its elaborate symbolism and rituals.

fraternally

adverbfrəˈtəːn(ə)lifrəˈtərn(ə)li

Leaving behind distrust, we must meet, know one another better, learn to love one another, and work together fraternally as much as possible.
Example sentencesExamples
- So often when he makes a pronouncement, you find the phrase, ‘I fraternally invite my brother bishops.’
- Noel ends by thanking the audience for being ‘mega’, and fraternally urges them not to hurt themselves on the way home.
- Therefore I fraternally appeal that your readers to not regard this as something just facing a Sri Lankan artist but a common problem involving the democratic rights of all.
- And for commercial purposes the sister republic was treated anything but fraternally.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin fraternalis, from Latin fraternus, from frater 'brother'.

friar from Middle English:
This is from Old French frere, from Latin frater ‘brother’, source also of such words as fraternal (Late Middle English) and fraternity (Late Middle English).

Rhymes

colonel, diurnal, eternal, external, infernal, internal, journal, kernel, maternal, nocturnal, paternal, supernal, vernal

Definition of fraternal in US English:

fraternal

adjectivefrəˈtərnlfrəˈtərnl

1Of or like a brother or brothers.
兄弟的；兄弟般的
his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me
他如此不讲兄弟情谊使我震惊。
Example sentencesExamples
- Our disagreements are fraternal, and we support each other whenever there are judicial problems.
- But then Barkulkul deviates from fraternal expectations-he kills his brother, plants him like a long yam and covers his corpse with a bunch of bananas.
- Monogamy is the norm, although some Tibetan-speaking peoples practice fraternal polyandry (two brothers may marry the same woman).
- The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz.
- Here, he uses the metaphor of the moon to reflect the dark side of all human relations-this time, in a semi-autobiographical take on fraternal friction.
- Looking down my list, it struck me that all of my chosen stories are about love in some of its myriad forms: romantic, fraternal, perverse, unrequited, frustrated, self-sacrificing and destructive.
- No, it does not achieve the sensation of the friend's living embrace or the shock of a fraternal admonition.
- Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind.
- How I reconcile this with impending fraternal birthday present purchasing, imminent Christmas gift buying, forthcoming silly season drunkenness and my existing overdraft and credit card debt, I really do not know.
- Their quirky relationship oscillates between paternal and fraternal, part father-son, part Wright brothers.
- He never betrayed the solemn fraternal oath he and his brothers swore before their mother Sheikha Salaama not to murder each other.
- Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love.
- Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
- Despite John's objections to psychological explanations, the mother functions as the sexualized prize and arbiter in this fraternal rivalry when the brothers come to blows on her doorstep.
- This fraternal tension stresses Philippe, especially now that their mother has died, because André is the only family he has left.
- Henri spent the last eleven years of his life nourishing genius, both with his cuisine and with the fraternal devotion of a big brother.
- But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered.
- Again and again, the treacherous brother in the fraternal allegory puts personal, material ambition over ‘natural’ family loyalty, law and order, spiritual and communal values.
- You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
- The fraternal duo have established themselves as one of Britain's most original electronic acts, gaining a reputation for excellent live shows and ambitious recordings.
Synonyms
sibling
1. 1.1 Of or denoting an organization or order for people, especially men, that have common interests or beliefs.
  兄弟会的；协会的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church-based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs.
  Oriental dress and regalia were adopted by fraternal organizations such as the Shriners, who wore fezzes and named their newly built Eastern style buildings after cities in Syrin, Iraq, and Egypt.
  Risk tests will be distributed through a variety of community channels including social-service, faith-based, grass-roots and fraternal organizations and retail outlets.
  They have organized themselves, however, through mutual aid societies as well as civic, educational, social, and fraternal organizations.
  Shortly before the Civil War, the fraternity regrouped and became the model for dozens of other fraternal organizations that enjoyed tremendous popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  It is a fraternal order whose basic principles are philanthropy, truth and brotherly love.
  There has to be a recommitted partnership among colleges and universities, graduate chapters and regional/national officials of Black fraternal organizations to address this problem.
  Later, Romanian immigrants gathered at the headquarters of mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations where they discussed news from Romania, read or wrote letters, and sang religious or popular songs.
  While it is true that most fraternal organizations excluded blacks and women as full members, so too did the vast majority of political associations and labor unions during the same period.
  Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn.
  The armies and athletic teams and fraternal orders of the world have uniforms, flags, toasts, songs, music handed down from one generation to the next, all as reminders that others have gone this way before and succeeded.
  This early form of communalism has been translated into today's world by the plethora of Polish American fraternal organizations.
  Around the same time, many lay Roman Catholic organizations were also founded; fraternal and social organizations were formed for men, women, workers, students, and other lay groups.
  If you don't have access to employer-provided health care, join a fraternal or professional organization to get access to insurance at group rates.
  The project team recruited potential study participants by working with churches, community and fraternal organizations, funeral homes, African American businesses, and universities.
  These people were not allowed to join the fraternal organizations that had been previously established by and for white people, so they sought to form their own social organizations throughout the country.
  It may be wiser to form into fraternal organizations, professional societies, and institutes of study than to continue with formal certification models.
  It pointed to evidence of declining participation in a variety of civic arenas - politics, churches, labor unions, parent-teacher organizations and fraternal organizations.
  This is evident both in their declining numbers, as well as in the decreasing number of their ethnic institutions, churches, cultural organizations, and fraternal organizations.
  The convenience sample was recruited from fraternal organizations, health fairs, and churches in a Midwestern community.
2(of twins) developed from separate ova and therefore genetically distinct and not necessarily of the same sex or more similar than other siblings.
（双胞胎）异卵双生的。比较IDENTICAL （义项1）
Compare with identical (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
- One particularly good test system with which to quantify disease heritability is a twin study, in which disease frequency is compared between cohorts of identical twins and fraternal twins.
- Some even thought of us as fraternal twins because I used to dress just like him and follow him around everywhere he went.
- Ordinary siblings and fraternal twins have only 50 percent of their genes in common.
- The disease occurs in 30% of identical twins but in only 5% of fraternal twins.
- Fifteen miles away, its fraternal twin, Ball's Pyramid, towers to a height of 1,811 feet, so sheer it seems two dimensional to the people in boats which pass in its shadow.
- Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical.
- Comparisons of identical and fraternal twins show that there is a strong genetic component to how people respond to lousy childhood environments.
- The study found that the identical twins were more similar in personality traits than the fraternal twins.
- Heritability is usually measured by concordance between parents and children, or between identical and fraternal twins.
- A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability.
- Identical twins have the same genotype, while fraternal twins share on average only 50% of the same genes.
- The fraternal twins had just turned two a week ago.
- There are generally two different types of twins recognized, fraternal and identical.
- The remaining two-thirds of twins are fraternal, resulting from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm.
- But some research suggests that parents, teachers, peers and others may treat identical twins more similarly than fraternal twins.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin fraternalis, from Latin fraternus, from frater ‘brother’.

单词	fraternal
释义	Definition of fraternal in English: fraternal adjective frəˈtəːn(ə)lfrəˈtərnl 1Of or like a brother or brothers. 兄弟的；兄弟般的 his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me 他如此不讲兄弟情谊使我震惊。 Example sentencesExamples Again and again, the treacherous brother in the fraternal allegory puts personal, material ambition over ‘natural’ family loyalty, law and order, spiritual and communal values. But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered. Our disagreements are fraternal, and we support each other whenever there are judicial problems. Monogamy is the norm, although some Tibetan-speaking peoples practice fraternal polyandry (two brothers may marry the same woman). He never betrayed the solemn fraternal oath he and his brothers swore before their mother Sheikha Salaama not to murder each other. Their quirky relationship oscillates between paternal and fraternal, part father-son, part Wright brothers. How I reconcile this with impending fraternal birthday present purchasing, imminent Christmas gift buying, forthcoming silly season drunkenness and my existing overdraft and credit card debt, I really do not know. Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind. Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on. Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love. Despite John's objections to psychological explanations, the mother functions as the sexualized prize and arbiter in this fraternal rivalry when the brothers come to blows on her doorstep. But then Barkulkul deviates from fraternal expectations-he kills his brother, plants him like a long yam and covers his corpse with a bunch of bananas. The fraternal duo have established themselves as one of Britain's most original electronic acts, gaining a reputation for excellent live shows and ambitious recordings. This fraternal tension stresses Philippe, especially now that their mother has died, because André is the only family he has left. No, it does not achieve the sensation of the friend's living embrace or the shock of a fraternal admonition. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. Here, he uses the metaphor of the moon to reflect the dark side of all human relations-this time, in a semi-autobiographical take on fraternal friction. The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz. Looking down my list, it struck me that all of my chosen stories are about love in some of its myriad forms: romantic, fraternal, perverse, unrequited, frustrated, self-sacrificing and destructive. Henri spent the last eleven years of his life nourishing genius, both with his cuisine and with the fraternal devotion of a big brother. Synonyms sibling 1.1 Of or denoting an organization for people, especially men, that have common interests or beliefs. 兄弟会的；协会的 a network of political clubs and fraternal organizations Example sentencesExamples Oriental dress and regalia were adopted by fraternal organizations such as the Shriners, who wore fezzes and named their newly built Eastern style buildings after cities in Syrin, Iraq, and Egypt. It is a fraternal order whose basic principles are philanthropy, truth and brotherly love. There has to be a recommitted partnership among colleges and universities, graduate chapters and regional/national officials of Black fraternal organizations to address this problem. While it is true that most fraternal organizations excluded blacks and women as full members, so too did the vast majority of political associations and labor unions during the same period. It may be wiser to form into fraternal organizations, professional societies, and institutes of study than to continue with formal certification models. They have organized themselves, however, through mutual aid societies as well as civic, educational, social, and fraternal organizations. Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church-based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs. Later, Romanian immigrants gathered at the headquarters of mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations where they discussed news from Romania, read or wrote letters, and sang religious or popular songs. Shortly before the Civil War, the fraternity regrouped and became the model for dozens of other fraternal organizations that enjoyed tremendous popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project team recruited potential study participants by working with churches, community and fraternal organizations, funeral homes, African American businesses, and universities. This early form of communalism has been translated into today's world by the plethora of Polish American fraternal organizations. Around the same time, many lay Roman Catholic organizations were also founded; fraternal and social organizations were formed for men, women, workers, students, and other lay groups. The convenience sample was recruited from fraternal organizations, health fairs, and churches in a Midwestern community. If you don't have access to employer-provided health care, join a fraternal or professional organization to get access to insurance at group rates. Risk tests will be distributed through a variety of community channels including social-service, faith-based, grass-roots and fraternal organizations and retail outlets. These people were not allowed to join the fraternal organizations that had been previously established by and for white people, so they sought to form their own social organizations throughout the country. Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn. It pointed to evidence of declining participation in a variety of civic arenas - politics, churches, labor unions, parent-teacher organizations and fraternal organizations. The armies and athletic teams and fraternal orders of the world have uniforms, flags, toasts, songs, music handed down from one generation to the next, all as reminders that others have gone this way before and succeeded. This is evident both in their declining numbers, as well as in the decreasing number of their ethnic institutions, churches, cultural organizations, and fraternal organizations. 2(of twins) developed from separate ova and therefore genetically distinct and not necessarily of the same sex or more similar than other siblings. （双胞胎）异卵双生的。比较IDENTICAL （义项1） Compare with identical (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability. Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical. Heritability is usually measured by concordance between parents and children, or between identical and fraternal twins. The remaining two-thirds of twins are fraternal, resulting from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm. Identical twins have the same genotype, while fraternal twins share on average only 50% of the same genes. But some research suggests that parents, teachers, peers and others may treat identical twins more similarly than fraternal twins. Some even thought of us as fraternal twins because I used to dress just like him and follow him around everywhere he went. There are generally two different types of twins recognized, fraternal and identical. Ordinary siblings and fraternal twins have only 50 percent of their genes in common. The study found that the identical twins were more similar in personality traits than the fraternal twins. Fifteen miles away, its fraternal twin, Ball's Pyramid, towers to a height of 1,811 feet, so sheer it seems two dimensional to the people in boats which pass in its shadow. Comparisons of identical and fraternal twins show that there is a strong genetic component to how people respond to lousy childhood environments. One particularly good test system with which to quantify disease heritability is a twin study, in which disease frequency is compared between cohorts of identical twins and fraternal twins. The fraternal twins had just turned two a week ago. The disease occurs in 30% of identical twins but in only 5% of fraternal twins. Derivatives fraternalism noun This may be seen today in corporate uniforms (airlines, hotels), identification badges, shoulder-tabs, and arm-bands; regimental and old school ties are merely rose-tinted nostalgia for lost fraternalism. Example sentencesExamples Its members found and formed a locus in which to exercise aspects of adult masculinity - quiet repose, self-culture, and fraternalism - while maintaining a safe distance from the dreadful delights of London. Have we become too accustomed to it, wrongly seeing in it a symbol for joy and fraternalism? This instinct manifests itself throughout our culture: nationalism, regionalism, religion, fraternalism, sports fans, loyalty to your school, and racism. In the 1920s, a number of popular service organizations like the Rotary appropriated fraternalism's ability to encourage business contacts and public benevolence but stripped away its elaborate symbolism and rituals. fraternally adverbfrəˈtəːn(ə)lifrəˈtərn(ə)li Leaving behind distrust, we must meet, know one another better, learn to love one another, and work together fraternally as much as possible. Example sentencesExamples So often when he makes a pronouncement, you find the phrase, ‘I fraternally invite my brother bishops.’ Noel ends by thanking the audience for being ‘mega’, and fraternally urges them not to hurt themselves on the way home. Therefore I fraternally appeal that your readers to not regard this as something just facing a Sri Lankan artist but a common problem involving the democratic rights of all. And for commercial purposes the sister republic was treated anything but fraternally. Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin fraternalis, from Latin fraternus, from frater 'brother'. friar from Middle English: This is from Old French frere, from Latin frater ‘brother’, source also of such words as fraternal (Late Middle English) and fraternity (Late Middle English). Rhymes colonel, diurnal, eternal, external, infernal, internal, journal, kernel, maternal, nocturnal, paternal, supernal, vernal Definition of fraternal in US English: fraternal adjectivefrəˈtərnlfrəˈtərnl 1Of or like a brother or brothers. 兄弟的；兄弟般的 his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me 他如此不讲兄弟情谊使我震惊。 Example sentencesExamples Our disagreements are fraternal, and we support each other whenever there are judicial problems. But then Barkulkul deviates from fraternal expectations-he kills his brother, plants him like a long yam and covers his corpse with a bunch of bananas. Monogamy is the norm, although some Tibetan-speaking peoples practice fraternal polyandry (two brothers may marry the same woman). The fraternal filmmaking team manages to make crass, stupid, lurid jokes, while also maintaining a heart and evoking old-fashioned schmaltz. Here, he uses the metaphor of the moon to reflect the dark side of all human relations-this time, in a semi-autobiographical take on fraternal friction. Looking down my list, it struck me that all of my chosen stories are about love in some of its myriad forms: romantic, fraternal, perverse, unrequited, frustrated, self-sacrificing and destructive. No, it does not achieve the sensation of the friend's living embrace or the shock of a fraternal admonition. Younger brother Prince Khurram promptly had him killed, as fraternal ambitions were not to be encouraged, even though the wretched Prince Khusrau was blind. How I reconcile this with impending fraternal birthday present purchasing, imminent Christmas gift buying, forthcoming silly season drunkenness and my existing overdraft and credit card debt, I really do not know. Their quirky relationship oscillates between paternal and fraternal, part father-son, part Wright brothers. He never betrayed the solemn fraternal oath he and his brothers swore before their mother Sheikha Salaama not to murder each other. Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love. Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on. Despite John's objections to psychological explanations, the mother functions as the sexualized prize and arbiter in this fraternal rivalry when the brothers come to blows on her doorstep. This fraternal tension stresses Philippe, especially now that their mother has died, because André is the only family he has left. Henri spent the last eleven years of his life nourishing genius, both with his cuisine and with the fraternal devotion of a big brother. But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered. Again and again, the treacherous brother in the fraternal allegory puts personal, material ambition over ‘natural’ family loyalty, law and order, spiritual and communal values. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. The fraternal duo have established themselves as one of Britain's most original electronic acts, gaining a reputation for excellent live shows and ambitious recordings. Synonyms sibling 1.1 Of or denoting an organization or order for people, especially men, that have common interests or beliefs. 兄弟会的；协会的 Example sentencesExamples Examples of bonding social capital include ethnic fraternal organizations, church-based women's reading groups, and fashionable country clubs. Oriental dress and regalia were adopted by fraternal organizations such as the Shriners, who wore fezzes and named their newly built Eastern style buildings after cities in Syrin, Iraq, and Egypt. Risk tests will be distributed through a variety of community channels including social-service, faith-based, grass-roots and fraternal organizations and retail outlets. They have organized themselves, however, through mutual aid societies as well as civic, educational, social, and fraternal organizations. Shortly before the Civil War, the fraternity regrouped and became the model for dozens of other fraternal organizations that enjoyed tremendous popularity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a fraternal order whose basic principles are philanthropy, truth and brotherly love. There has to be a recommitted partnership among colleges and universities, graduate chapters and regional/national officials of Black fraternal organizations to address this problem. Later, Romanian immigrants gathered at the headquarters of mutual aid societies and fraternal organizations where they discussed news from Romania, read or wrote letters, and sang religious or popular songs. While it is true that most fraternal organizations excluded blacks and women as full members, so too did the vast majority of political associations and labor unions during the same period. Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn. The armies and athletic teams and fraternal orders of the world have uniforms, flags, toasts, songs, music handed down from one generation to the next, all as reminders that others have gone this way before and succeeded. This early form of communalism has been translated into today's world by the plethora of Polish American fraternal organizations. Around the same time, many lay Roman Catholic organizations were also founded; fraternal and social organizations were formed for men, women, workers, students, and other lay groups. If you don't have access to employer-provided health care, join a fraternal or professional organization to get access to insurance at group rates. The project team recruited potential study participants by working with churches, community and fraternal organizations, funeral homes, African American businesses, and universities. These people were not allowed to join the fraternal organizations that had been previously established by and for white people, so they sought to form their own social organizations throughout the country. It may be wiser to form into fraternal organizations, professional societies, and institutes of study than to continue with formal certification models. It pointed to evidence of declining participation in a variety of civic arenas - politics, churches, labor unions, parent-teacher organizations and fraternal organizations. This is evident both in their declining numbers, as well as in the decreasing number of their ethnic institutions, churches, cultural organizations, and fraternal organizations. The convenience sample was recruited from fraternal organizations, health fairs, and churches in a Midwestern community. 2(of twins) developed from separate ova and therefore genetically distinct and not necessarily of the same sex or more similar than other siblings. （双胞胎）异卵双生的。比较IDENTICAL （义项1） Compare with identical (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples One particularly good test system with which to quantify disease heritability is a twin study, in which disease frequency is compared between cohorts of identical twins and fraternal twins. Some even thought of us as fraternal twins because I used to dress just like him and follow him around everywhere he went. Ordinary siblings and fraternal twins have only 50 percent of their genes in common. The disease occurs in 30% of identical twins but in only 5% of fraternal twins. Fifteen miles away, its fraternal twin, Ball's Pyramid, towers to a height of 1,811 feet, so sheer it seems two dimensional to the people in boats which pass in its shadow. Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical. Comparisons of identical and fraternal twins show that there is a strong genetic component to how people respond to lousy childhood environments. The study found that the identical twins were more similar in personality traits than the fraternal twins. Heritability is usually measured by concordance between parents and children, or between identical and fraternal twins. A study of identical and fraternal twins separated at birth and adopted into different families showed the same heritability. Identical twins have the same genotype, while fraternal twins share on average only 50% of the same genes. The fraternal twins had just turned two a week ago. There are generally two different types of twins recognized, fraternal and identical. The remaining two-thirds of twins are fraternal, resulting from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm. But some research suggests that parents, teachers, peers and others may treat identical twins more similarly than fraternal twins. Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin fraternalis, from Latin fraternus, from frater ‘brother’.
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