| 单词 | innate |
| 释义 | in·nate 1. a. < innate vigor > b. < the innate defect in a plan > c. < innate ideas of God, immortality, right and wrong > — compare a priori, intuitive 2. obsolete 3. a. b. c. Synonyms: < simple ideas should be kept simple, and their innate strength should not be undermined by the use of big words and by periphrases — E.S.McCartney > < because of her ability to sense the innate talent of young and untried actors — American Guide Series: Michigan > < this stubbornness has been explained as being innate in the Germans, as a natural racial cussedness — R.C.Wood > inborn may describe a natural native distinctive characteristic so deep-seated as to have been born in one, often present at birth < there was in him a rush of inborn vitality like an Alpine torrent — Agnes Repplier > < the psychopathic personality is held to be an inborn (though not hereditary) deficit and is of the nature of a functional alteration — Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry & Neurosurgery > inbred describes that which becomes deeply ingrained into one's nature by early environmental influences without being part of one's nature at birth < those inbred sentiments which are … the true supporters of all liberal and manly morals — Edmund Burke > < a methodical man, an inbred Yankee — W.A.White > congenital applies to a characteristic present at the birth of a person or inception of a thing or notion, whatever the provenience of that characteristic < the newborn child's chances of survival and healthy development depend in part on his congenital equipment — Times Literary Supplement > < yet art for art's sake suffers from a congenital disease; it professes to create substance out of form, which is physically impossible — George Santayana > hereditary and inherited describe characteristics and conditions not only present at birth but definitely coming from heredity, that is, brought about by transmission from parents and ancestors < an hereditary propensity to kill men and eat them. True, he came from a race of cannibals — Herman Melville > < most of us, of course, held fast to the Republican party, for political beliefs were hereditary, transmissible in the male line — Ben Riker > < a tendency in the past to confuse congenital with inherited. It is a commonplace now that conditions present at birth are not necessarily inherited in the biological sense of the word, to quote only congenital syphilis as an example. It is also generally known that many inherited conditions first manifest themselves long after birth — Hans Grüneberg > |
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