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innate

/ih-neyt, in-eyt/US // ɪˈneɪt, ˈɪn eɪt //UK // (ɪˈneɪt, ˈɪneɪt) //

与生俱来的,天生的,先天的,与生俱来

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : existing in one from birth; inborn; native: innate musical talent.
    • : inherent in the essential character of something: an innate defect in the hypothesis.
    • : originating in or arising from the intellect or the constitution of the mind, rather than learned through experience: an innate knowledge of good and evil.

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Examples

  • Mouse organs sent to space also had higher levels of RNAs that play a role in the body’s innate immunity.

  • I have always had this innate passion for helping others, and that along with my entrepreneurial spirit, I knew I wanted to do something good for motherhood.

  • There's an innate immune response that is triggered when cells sense they're infected.

  • When animals are routinely attracted to humans and their food, they often become habituated to human presence, meaning they lose their innate fear of us.

  • When Lohmann dropped newly hatched turtles into these conditions, they swam into the waves, just as their innate programming instructed them to—and as a result, they went the wrong way.

  • Now, 42 percent believe that it is innate and 37 percent hold that it is environmental—hardly a massive shift in popular opinion.

  • “Kit has an innate confidence and projects a playfully rebellious nature,” the brand's creative director, Sandra Choi, said.

  • These approaches are critical as they strive to fix the innate issue: spinal cord damage.

  • The willing masochism of being an England supporter is innate.

  • You could hear White's innate pop orientation at the Fonda show as well.

  • She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.

  • He had the innate slant of mind that properly belongs to a moderator of mass meetings called to aggravate a crisis.

  • But Weirmarsh, with his innate cunning, presented to him a picture of exposure and degradation which held him horrified.

  • But it was his kindliness of heart, and above all his innate sense of humour, which appealed most to Peter Ilich.

  • Herein Queeker exhibited the innate tendency of the human heart to deceive itself.