atavism

n. 返祖现象；隔代遗传

n.

隔代遗传，返祖现象；

英英释义

atavism[ 'ætəvizəm ]

n.a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

同义词：reversionthrowback

权威例句

atavism (n.)

1833, from French atavisme, attested by 1820s, from Latin atavus "ancestor, forefather," from at- perhaps here meaning "beyond" + avus "grandfather," from PIE *awo- "adult male relative other than the father" (see uncle).

1. One striking example of an atavism is the human coccyx, or tailbone, which is a relic of the mammalian tail.

关于返祖的一个有力例证就是人类的尾骨，它是哺乳动物尾巴的遗留物。

2. If learning and gentility are signs of civilization, perhaps our almost-big brains are straining against their residual atavism, struggling to expand.

如果学习和温婉是文明的标志，那么也许可以说我们那不算太大的大的大脑正在超越落后的残余，努力扩展着自己。

3. Together we developed the theory that cancer tumours are a type of atavism that appears in the adult form when something disrupts the silencing of ancestral genes.

我们合作发展了肿瘤细胞是一种返祖现象这个理论，当远古基因的沉寂被扰乱时，返祖现象就会出现在成体型中。

4. Imitation of the West seemed wiser than atavism, not least among Japanese, who in the 1930s dressed pan-Asianism in wolf’s clothing.

模仿西方似乎比倒行逆施显得更加明智，尤其是对于在30年代披着范亚洲化羊皮的日本狼。

5. Xiong Bite explains imperialism from sociological viewpoint, he thinks imperialism is the atavism in structure of a kind of society.

熊彼特从社会学的观点来解释帝国主义，他认为帝国主义是一种社会结构中的返祖现象。

6. Atavism must be counteracted by the powers of the mind, and reaction is a form of atavism .

返祖必将受到思维能力的阻碍，而复古恰恰是返祖的一种形式。

7. The civilization craftsman mythology usually exceeds the originality craftsman mythology, though sometimes with the atavism.

文明社会的工匠神话对原始工匠神话多有超越，但有时又出现返祖现象。

8. The authors consider that the distortion perhaps is atavism. Perhaps these transitions reflect the developmental process of the ovuliferous-scale in history.

作者认为这类珠鳞的畸变是返祖现象，可能在某些方面反映了珠鳞的历史演变过程。

9. The capacity of somatic cells to evolve is an atavism, as this property is lost in the transition of uni- to multicellularity.

体细胞的自主演化能力是一种返祖现象，因为在单细胞生物体转变为多细胞生物体时这种特性已经丧失。

10. Now we are not sure that he has atavism , because such a diagnosis needs more high-tech inspection.

目前还不能肯定陈聪华是一种返祖现象，需要利用高科技手段对其进行进一步的诊断。

11. The crisscross-inheritance and atavism are two different concepts in essence. The crisscross-inheritance is a dynamic variation that pathogenic genes of X-chromosome vary with the X-chromosome.

交叉遗传和隔代遗传是有本质区别的两个概念，交叉遗传是指位于X染色体上的致病基因随X染色体的动态变化而变化。

12. I have even read in a book of criminology that the tramp is an atavism , a throw-back to the nomadic stage of humanity.

我甚至在一本关于犯罪学的书上读到过流浪是种隔代遗传现象，是向人类之游牧阶段的回归。

13. Such an atavism is the consequence of the principles of economy in human thinking and sociocultural psychology as well as the internal selective mechanism of human language.

这种返祖现象的语言学成因，除语言内部选择机制的作用外，还有思维经济原则和社会文化心理的作用。

14. It is of opinion that pre logical thinking is the growth point of Guos creative thinking mode and that atavism and contemporaneity constitute Guos thinking mode of"tackling both extremes".

原逻辑思维是郭沫若创造性思维方式的生长点，“返祖”意识与当代意识构成郭沫若创造性思维体系中“叩其两端”的运思方式。

15. An individual or a part that exhibits atavism.

这些都可以解释为一种精神的返祖现象。

16. An individual or a part that exhibits atavism.

这些都可以解释为一种精神的返祖现象。

17. If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.

如果父母及祖父母都是很安静而好家居的，孩子表现了一位当过船长的祖先的特点，好旅行探险，这就可以说是一个隔代遗传的例子。

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18. An individual or a part that exhibits atavism.

返祖体表现出返祖现象的个体或部分

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19. They are explainable as a species of mental atavism.

这些都可以解释为一种精神的返祖现象。

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20. The civilization craftsman mythology usually exceeds the originality craftsman mythology, though sometimes with the atavism.

文明社会的工匠神话对原始工匠神话多有超越,但有时又出现返祖现象。

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21. The first is standstill (fixation), atavism, variation or other disturbances of libido and sexual psychology in the course of recapitulation of development, and acquirement of experiences of climax principally by the mode of infantile sexual behaviors.

第一个原因是生长发育复演过程中性欲(里比多)和性心理的停顿(固定)、返祖现象、变异或其他障碍,主要通过幼稚性行为的方式获得性高潮的经验。

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