atavism

单词atavism

基本解释

n.: 返祖(现象)；呈现返祖现象的人
网络: 隔代遗传；返祖性；间代遗传

英汉解释

• 【医学】隔代遗传,返祖(现象),返祖性

• 呈现返祖现象的人

词性分析

• 复数：atavisms

例句

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• The atavism appears in the crisscross inheritance as well as in the other genetic way.

  隔代遗传既出现在交叉遗传当中，也出现在其它遗传当中。

• The atavism means the rearrearance of a trait after generations of absence.

  隔代遗传是指在整个系谱中，是否有一代没有患者。

• 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。

• The "Atavism" in the Contemporary Chinese Vocabulary

  当代汉语词汇中的“返祖”现象