mutual

mutual
[ˈmjuːtʃʊəl, -tjʊəl]
adjective
  1. (of a feeling or action) experienced or done by each of two or more parties towards the other or others
    （感情，行动）相互的，彼此的
    a partnership based on mutual respect and understanding.
    建立在相互尊重和相互理解基础之上的合伙关系。
    my father hated him from the start and the feeling was mutual.
    我父亲一开始就恨他，这种情感是相互的。
    ■(of two or more people) having the same specified relationship to each other
    （两个或两个以上的人）彼此有相同关系的，交互的
    they cooperated as potentially mutual beneficiaries of the settlement.
    他们作为协议的潜在共同受益者进行合作。
  2. held in common by two or more parties
    共同的，共有的
    we were introduced by a mutual friend.
    一个双方都认识的朋友给我们做了介绍。
    ■denoting a building society or insurance company owned by its members and dividing some or all of its profits between them
    （住房信贷互助会，保险公司）各成员共有并共享利益的
noun
  1. a mutual building society or insurance company
    利益共享的住房信贷互助会（或保险公司）
语源
  1. late 15th cent.: from Old French mutuel, from Latin mutuus 'mutual, borrowed'; related to mutare 'to change'
用法
  1. Traditionally it has long been held that the only correct use of mutual is in describing a reciprocal relationship: mutual respect, for example, means that the parties involved feel respect for each other. The other use of mutual meaning ‘held in common’, as in mutual friend, is held to be incorrect. This latter use has a long and respectable history, however. It was first recorded in Shakespeare, and has since appeared in the writing of Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, and, most famously, as the title of Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend. It is now generally accepted as part of standard English
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