Hereditary
[hɪ'redɪt(ə)rɪ] or [hə'rɛdə'tɛri]
解释:
(a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
(a.) Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
尤金伲亚整理
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Ancestral, patrimonial, by inheritance.[2]. Inherited, transmitted (from ancestors).
珍妮特编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Inherited, ancestral, lineal
ANT:Conferred, acquired, won
哈洛录入
例句:
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But how do you know that it is hereditary? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The material of instruction, the method of instruction, and the type of educational institution, will vary with the hereditary endowment, age, and probable soc ial destiny of the child. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The Brahmins, who had the monopoly of teaching among the Hindus, had all the conceit and slackness of hereditary privilege. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- To this day one main division of the Moslems, the Shiites, maintain the hereditary right of Ali to be Caliph _as an article of faith_! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Trade was Mr. Moore's hereditary calling: the Gérards of Antwerp had been merchants for two centuries back. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The old man would start at some hereditary feature or tone unconsciously used by the little lad, and fancy that George's father was again before him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But it was not monarchy of the later European type, not hereditary monarchy, which was now installed in Rome. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This was monarchy; if not hereditary monarchy, it was at least electoral life monarchy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Greek democracy was, in fact, a sort of government by a swarm of hereditary barristers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In none of the English colonies is there any hereditary nobility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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