Atavism
['ætəvɪzəm] or ['ætə,vɪzəm]
解释:
(n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.
(n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
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解释:
n. frequent appearance of ancestral but not parental characteristics in an animal or plant: reversion to an original type.—adj. At′avistic.
录入:罗兰
例句:
- She was indeed, as her fellow Martian had said of her, an atavism; a dear and precious reversion to a former type of loved and loving ancestor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The thought that the divine Dejah Thoris might fall into the clutches of such an abysmal atavism started the cold sweat upon me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- To which it may be added that not less equally have the nature of inheritance and the quality of atavism been exhibited in his extraordinary predilection for the miller's art. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In our day we have progressed to a point where such sentiments mark weakness and atavism. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The feminists too have their atavisms: not a few who object to the patriarchal family seem inclined to cure it by going back still more--to the matriarchal. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
手打:蒙塔古