| 单词 | to be in the blood | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be in the blood  e.    to run in the blood and variants: to run in a family or bloodline; to be an inherited characteristic or tendency. Later also  to be in the blood: to be in a person's nature; to be an ingrained interest, attribute, or characteristic of. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > intrinsic or inherent			[phrase]		 > run in a family or race to run in the bloodc1598 c1598    King James VI & I Basilicon Doron 		(1944)	 I.  ii. 109  				Vertue or vice wil oftimes (with the heritage) be transferred from the parents to the posteritie, and runne on a bloode (as the prouerbe is). 1603    J. Florio in  tr.  M. de Montaigne Ess. Ep. Ded. sig. A3v  				As if this river of benignitie did runne in a blood, your worthie Sonne in-Law, and vertuous Daughter Chichester with like-sweete liquor have supplied my drie cesterns. 1612    G. Chapman Widdowes Teares sig. B3v  				It goes Sir in a bloud; beleeue me brother, These destinies goe euer in a bloud. 1627    R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 379  				Tempers of the mind and affections become hereditary, and (as we say) runne in a bloud. 1647    N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 48  				It seemeth to runne in the blood of an English man..to be as brave under a single Queen, as under the most valiant King. 1703    W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. xiv. 5  				Cruelty runs in a Blood. 1775    R. B. Sheridan Rivals  iv. ii. 72  				Tell her 'tis all our ways—it runs in the blood of our family! 1843    L. Aikin Life J. Addison I. i. 2  				It can rarely be made to appear, either that genius ran in the blood, or that the particular direction which it took..was a designed or calculated effect of parental agency. 1856    ‘G. Eliot’ in  Westm. Rev. July 69  				As long as snobbism runs in the blood, why should it not run in our speech? 1901    Daily Chron. 24 May 3/3  				The man..with the salt in his blood, and a yearning for the blue water. 1931    V. Sackville-West All Passion Spent  iii. 200  				They couldn't help being stingy, since parsimony ran in their blood. 1955    M. Wheeler Still Digging 		(1958)	 119  				The Desert's in me blood. 2006    Wired June 78/1  				As an art professor at NYU and a sculptor who uses found objects, Karp has collecting in her blood. 2007    M. Brown et al.  Rugby for Dummies xxv. 329  				Rugby seems to run in the blood of some families. < as lemmas  | 
	
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