atavistic
atavistic 英 [ˌætəˈvɪstɪk] 美 [ˌætəˈvɪstɪk]
adj. 隔代遗传的；返祖现象的
- Are you scared of the dark? It's okay. That is quite a natural atavistic fear — that is, a fear related to an ancient way of thinking or behaving.
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- adj. 隔代遗传的；返祖现象的
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1. Warriors can be primitive and atavistic—which is to say brutal.
战士可以是原始和返祖性的——也可以说野蛮。
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2. Whether this was genuine concern for a real social problem or was born of a more atavistic notion that there is something inherently, biologically wrong with mixing races, we can only speculate.
无论这是真正关心现实的社会问题，还是出于更返祖的观念——固有的、从生物学角度来说混血是错误的观念，我们只能推测。
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