查询词典 atavistic

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性。

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。

This has never been more so than in this era when politics has, in Jonathan Chait's recent portrait in The New Republic, become "an atavistic clash of partisan willpower," with Christian Right pitted against the Netroots Left in a polarized media environment defined by hyperbolic talk radio and the foolish excesses of the blogosphere.

这种事于今为烈，正如乔纳森·蔡特最近在《新共和国》中所描绘的那样，政治成了"返祖遗传式的党派意志力角逐"，在夸大其词的广播谈话和博客流行的过分愚蠢的渲染而使媒体出现两极分化的氛围中，基督教右派被塑造成了与网根左翼不共戴天的对头。

In this mode, Pope Benedict XVI last week issued two unexpected decrees, restoring the atavistic Mass of the Council of Trent and resuscitating an outmoded Catholic exclusivism -- the notion of a pope-centered Catholicism as the only authentic way to God.

上星期，教皇本笃十六世以同样的方式发表了两篇出人意料的教谕，目的是使远古的特伦特教廷的弥撒得到恢复，使过时的天主教单一主义得到复兴——这种观念把以教皇为中心的天主教信仰当作通向上帝的唯一可靠途径。

Atavistic genetic freckle have this feature, which is why some parents do not have freckles, but there freckles because their children.

返祖遗传雀斑有这种功能，这就是为什么有些父母没有雀斑，但有雀斑，因为他们的子女。

All the talk of spending cuts, for example, seems to have reawakened atavistic fears about Tory heartlessness.

例如，从保守党提出的所有削减开支的提议中似乎能再次看到该党冷酷无情的一面。

His party did not have to renounce any convictions as central and atavistic as Labour's commitment to nationalised industry; but where Mr Blair followed proto-reformist leaders in the shape of Neil Kinnock and John Smith, Mr Cameron started from scratch.

保守党并没有被迫放弃任何如工党对国有产业做出的那样中落后的承诺；布莱尔步尔·金诺克和史密斯等最初改良派领导人的后尘，但卡梅隆却从零开始。

Beneath their chic and natty appearances they respond to atavistic and primitive impulses.

在他们那潇洒敏捷的外表里面，涌动着返祖性的原始冲动。

Now and then they would compliment me on being alive, but in such a way that I felt embarrassed. They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred, a soulful Pithecanthropus erectus. Boris especially seemed to get a great kick out of touching me; he wanted me to be alive so that he could die to his heart's content.

他们不时会因为我还活着恭维我，但是他们的恭维方式令我很窘迫，他们叫我觉得自己是一个生活在十九世纪并出现返祖现象的遗老、一条浪漫的破布、一个有情感的直立猿人。

He weighed the possible evidences for and against ritual murder: the incitations of the hierarchy, the superstition of the populace, the propagation of rumour in continued fraction of veridicity, the envy of opulence, the influence of retaliation, the sporadic reappearance of atavistic delinquency, the mitigating circumstances of fanaticism, hypnotic suggestion and somnambulism.

274他在衡量着赞成和反对杀人祭神的可能的证据：神职人员的煽动以及民众的迷信；随着谣言的传播，致使真实性逐渐减少。对财富的嫉妒，复仇的影响，隔代遗传造成的不法行为的突发性再犯。有量情余地的狂信，催眠术的暗示和梦游病症状。

A historical region of southwest France between the Pyrenees and the Garonne River. The duchy of Aquitaine was joined with France after the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to King Louis VII in1137, but its possession was disputed after her subsequent marriage to Henry II of England.

阿基坦法国西南部一个历史地区，位于比利牛斯山和加隆河之间，在1137年阿基坦的埃莉诺与国王路易斯七世结婚之后阿基坦公国加入法国，但当她再嫁英国亨利二世后，其归属权便受到争议

There are moments when I look at the smiling , happy faces of my expectant staff and wonder how they will cope when confronted by an outraged housemaster along with an unrepentant and recalcitrant bleached blond teenager in 18 years ' time .

有时候，我看着那些满怀期待的员工微笑，幸福的脸，想着当他们遇到一位愤怒的宿舍管理员和一位不知悔改，叛逆，而且将头发染成白色的18岁少年时，他们会如何处理。