记忆方法
将“atavism”分解为“ata-”和“-vism”。首先，“ata-”可以联想到“again”（再次），暗示着某种古老或重归的现象。接着，“-vism”常常与行为或现象有关，比如“capitalism”（资本主义）。所以，可以创造一个场景：一个古老的特质或特性“再次”（ata-）以某种现象（-vism）的形式出现，从而记住“atavism”表示返祖现象。
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词族 · atavism
词形变化
英语词源
- 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).
权威例句
- 1. 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.
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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.