atavism meaning in English
n.
1.【医学】隔代遗传，返祖(现象)，返祖性。
2.呈现返祖现象的人。
adj.
-vistic
Examples
- 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。 - I would deal inespecial with atavism
他鼻孔里呼吸的净是阴谋诡计。 - 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。 - Another possible explanation for rococo genetic systems is atavism , in which some biological mechanisms revert back to an ancestral state , although presumably with modification , in a new , derived genetic background
有关旧式遗传学系统的另一个可能的解释是隔代遗传，在此过程中一些生物学机制恢复到一种原始生物才有的状态，尽管该状态可能会在一种新的衍生遗传学背景下发生改变。 - King kong connects our origins in the swamp with our ambition to reconquer heaven by building towers of babel ; it is about atavism and aspiration , and , when the monster starts to fancy his screaming female captive , it forces us to rethink the divisions we have made between animal , man and god
金刚连结了我们在泥沼中的起源，和建造巴别塔再次征服天堂的野心；这是关于返祖现象和抱负，以及，当怪兽开始迷恋?尖叫的女囚， ?逼迫我们再次思考我们在动物、人与神之间制造的区别。