| 释义 |
atavistic, a.|ætəˈvɪstɪk|
[f. prec.: see -istic.]
Of or pertaining to atavism; atavic.
1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 275 The social and the atavistic influence. 1915W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxvi. 108 Some atavistic inheritance of the cave-dweller. 1922Joyce Ulysses 676 The sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency. 1932E. Waugh Black Mischief v. 168 Was it some atavistic sense of a caste, an instinct of superiority, that held him aloof?
Hence ataˈvistically adv.
1884N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 253 The ancient types crop out atavistically. 1897E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics i. 33 The lower classes..reflect atavistically the ideas and passions of primitive man. 1926Blackw. Mag. Apr. 446/2 Some of them bolted atavistically up the nearest tree. |