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单词 natural-born
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Definition of natural-born in English:

natural-born

adjective
  • 1Having a specified innate characteristic or ability.

    Glen was a natural-born sailor
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A natural-born performer, Brown began writing her own music when she was 12 years old.
    • Rufus is thorough in exploring the differences between natural-born loners and pseudo-loners.
    • He's a natural-born performer, exuding charisma on stage - and frequently off it, as he scuttles into the crowd to give a wary punter a passionate bear hug.
    • With Braveheart, Mel Gibson demonstrated his prowess as a natural-born director.
    • As well as being an artist, he was a natural-born teacher.
    • ‘My running mate is a natural-born leader,’ Kerry said.
    • Apparently cats do not get enough protein from tinned food and being natural-born predators even couch-potato felines will feast as nature intended.
    • She's a natural-born peacemaker and, ultimately, can help bring harmony to just about any uncomfortable situation.
    • As well as having a natural-born talent and vast imagination, it seems his trick in creating the most popular television series was keeping his eyes and ears open.
    • There are natural-born short sleepers who are perfectly healthy with fewer than six hours.
    • His colleagues describe him as a natural-born workaholic who can keep a sharp mind even after working all night.
    • He's either a natural-born bore, or just immature and simply not ready to have a girlfriend.
    • But like all natural-born followers, I require a main party leader to lead the way first.
    • Dave is a natural-born scammer who, along with a couple of pals, has cheated his way through university.
    • For example, I'm something of a natural-born show-off (hadn't you guessed?)
    • He was such a natural-born actor that I just assumed he would go on acting.
    • Is she really a natural-born celebrator, joyous and outgoing at every turn?
    • He was captivating, a natural-born performer who knew how to modulate his voice, to gesture compellingly, to manipulate silence and mood so that I found myself laughing one moment and nearly weeping the next.
    • From those intense and physically demanding days of her apprenticeship Louise nurtured her natural-born talent for designing. cutting and creating spectacular hairstyles.
    • As natural-born philosophers, the Greeks knew that when it came to preparing for the Olympics, the last minute was as good as any other.
    Synonyms
    innate, inborn, inherent, native, native-born, intrinsic, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, ingrained, built-in
    1. 1.1archaic Having a particular position by birth.
      a natural-born citizen
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For instance, many other Americans fail to realize that Puerto Ricans are natural-born American citizens or wrongly view their native island as a primitive tropical land of grass huts and grass skirts.
      • Several lawyers are calling for his disqualification on the grounds that he is not a natural-born Filipino citizen.
      • The US president and vice-president must be natural-born citizens, at least 35 years of age and residents of the country for 14 years.
      • Also, the Constitution requires that the president be a natural-born citizen, so Chao, born in Taiwan, and Martinez, who came to the United States from Cuba, would not be eligible.
      • The president, who had to be a natural-born citizen of the United States, was to be commander-in-chief of the military and the state militias when brought into federal service.
      • Most older expatriate Samoans are immigrants, although many of their offspring are natural-born citizens of their host countries.
      • If natural-born Bahamians cannot see the fallacy of that statement, then they deserve to be outnumbered by a people smarter than them.
      • This provision complemented legislation introduced in 1844, providing that an alien woman who married a British subject would be deemed a naturalized British subject with all the rights and privileges of a natural-born subject.
      • Documents taken from the National Archive microfilm point to FPJ not being a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and therefore ineligible to run for president.
 
 

Definition of natural-born in US English:

natural-born

adjectiveˈnætʃ(ə)rəl ˈˌbɔrnˈnaCH(ə)rəl ˈˌbôrn
  • 1Having a specified innate characteristic or ability.

    Glen was a natural-born sailor
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A natural-born performer, Brown began writing her own music when she was 12 years old.
    • But like all natural-born followers, I require a main party leader to lead the way first.
    • She's a natural-born peacemaker and, ultimately, can help bring harmony to just about any uncomfortable situation.
    • As well as having a natural-born talent and vast imagination, it seems his trick in creating the most popular television series was keeping his eyes and ears open.
    • He was such a natural-born actor that I just assumed he would go on acting.
    • There are natural-born short sleepers who are perfectly healthy with fewer than six hours.
    • Apparently cats do not get enough protein from tinned food and being natural-born predators even couch-potato felines will feast as nature intended.
    • Dave is a natural-born scammer who, along with a couple of pals, has cheated his way through university.
    • He's a natural-born performer, exuding charisma on stage - and frequently off it, as he scuttles into the crowd to give a wary punter a passionate bear hug.
    • As natural-born philosophers, the Greeks knew that when it came to preparing for the Olympics, the last minute was as good as any other.
    • With Braveheart, Mel Gibson demonstrated his prowess as a natural-born director.
    • From those intense and physically demanding days of her apprenticeship Louise nurtured her natural-born talent for designing. cutting and creating spectacular hairstyles.
    • ‘My running mate is a natural-born leader,’ Kerry said.
    • He was captivating, a natural-born performer who knew how to modulate his voice, to gesture compellingly, to manipulate silence and mood so that I found myself laughing one moment and nearly weeping the next.
    • He's either a natural-born bore, or just immature and simply not ready to have a girlfriend.
    • Rufus is thorough in exploring the differences between natural-born loners and pseudo-loners.
    • As well as being an artist, he was a natural-born teacher.
    • For example, I'm something of a natural-born show-off (hadn't you guessed?)
    • His colleagues describe him as a natural-born workaholic who can keep a sharp mind even after working all night.
    • Is she really a natural-born celebrator, joyous and outgoing at every turn?
    Synonyms
    innate, inborn, inherent, native, native-born, intrinsic, instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, ingrained, built-in
    1. 1.1archaic Having a position by birth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Also, the Constitution requires that the president be a natural-born citizen, so Chao, born in Taiwan, and Martinez, who came to the United States from Cuba, would not be eligible.
      • This provision complemented legislation introduced in 1844, providing that an alien woman who married a British subject would be deemed a naturalized British subject with all the rights and privileges of a natural-born subject.
      • The president, who had to be a natural-born citizen of the United States, was to be commander-in-chief of the military and the state militias when brought into federal service.
      • Most older expatriate Samoans are immigrants, although many of their offspring are natural-born citizens of their host countries.
      • Documents taken from the National Archive microfilm point to FPJ not being a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and therefore ineligible to run for president.
      • If natural-born Bahamians cannot see the fallacy of that statement, then they deserve to be outnumbered by a people smarter than them.
      • Several lawyers are calling for his disqualification on the grounds that he is not a natural-born Filipino citizen.
      • For instance, many other Americans fail to realize that Puerto Ricans are natural-born American citizens or wrongly view their native island as a primitive tropical land of grass huts and grass skirts.
      • The US president and vice-president must be natural-born citizens, at least 35 years of age and residents of the country for 14 years.
 
 
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