atavistic

英式音标：[ˌætəˈvɪstɪk]

美式音标：[ˌætəˈvɪstɪk]

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概况：

adj. 隔代遗传的；返祖现象的

词义：

adj.

隔代遗传的，返祖性的；

英英释义

atavistic[ ,ætə'vistik ]

adj.characteristic of an atavist

同义词：throwback(a)

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

Many of those present felt this atavistic fear.
在场的那些人中，很多都感到这种隔代遗传的恐惧。

It was characteristic of an old, atavistic callousness that went with her delicacy.
这正是伴随着她病弱身体的老年返祖现象的一种麻木冷淡的特征。

权威例句

Atavisms and atavistic mutations

On atavisms and atavistic genes.

Possible "atavistic"structures in human aneuploids.

Atavistic genetic algorithm for economic dispatch with valve point effect

Aging as a mitochondria-mediated atavistic program: can aging be switched off?

Goodbye to Hammurabi: Analyzing the Atavistic Appeal of Restorative Justice

Constituting the Punishable Woman. Atavistic Man Incarcerates Postmodern Woman

Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes

Taxon mapping exemplifies punctuated equilibrium and atavistic saltation

Feminist approaches to criminology or postmodern woman meets atavistic man

同根词：atavism

英语词源：

atavistic (adj.)

"pertaining to atavism," 1847; see atavism + -ic.

造句：

1. It was characteristic of an old, atavistic callousness that went with her delicacy.

这正是伴随着她病弱身体的老年返祖现象的一种麻木冷淡的特征。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. He was, because of some atavistic spur or fillip in his own blood, most anxious to attain some sort of social position.

可是他血液里有祖上那股劲，急于想弄到一个什么社会地位。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. What Debbie enjoyed to the point of obsession was a video of the Amazonian rainforest. It seemed to stir an atavistic chord in her stout breast.

真正让黛比着迷的是那盒亚马逊雨林的录相带，它令黛比那强壮的身躯里渴望回归家园的心激荡不已。

-- 来源 -- literature - 汉英

4. It seemed to stir an atavistic chord in her stout breast.

那里有散发着蒸汽的潮湿草木和游戈其中的蟒蛇。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

5. atavistic regeneration

返祖性再生

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

6. atavistic deformity

返祖畸形

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

7. As newspapers get rid of the more atavistic elements in their print editions— such as the pages of( inherently out-of-date) share prices— they also save on ink and paper.

当报纸出版商在纸质版本中摆脱了诸如广告页面等隔代遗传的因素，他们也节约了墨水和纸张。

-- 来源 -- bbs.techcn.com.cn