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natively

/ney-tiv/US // ˈneɪ tɪv //UK // (ˈneɪtɪv) //

自然,自然地,原生,原生的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
    • : belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native ability;native grace.
    • : belonging by birth to a people regarded as indigenous to a certain place, especially a preliterate people: Native guides accompanied the expedition through the rainforest.
    • : of indigenous origin, growth, or production: native pottery.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indigenous inhabitants of a place or country: native customs;native dress.
    • : born in a particular place or country: a native New Yorker.
    • : of or relating to a language acquired by a person before or to the exclusion of any other language: Her native language is Greek.
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of a person using his or her native language: a native speaker of English;native command of a language.
    • : under the rule of natives: a native government.
    • : occupied by natives: the native quarter of Algiers.
    • : remaining or growing in a natural state; unadorned or unchanged: the native beauty of a desert island.
    • : forming the source or origin of a person or thing: He returned to his native Kansas.
    • : originating naturally in a particular country or region, as animals or plants: Hundreds of species of plants and trees native to central Texas are displayed and nurtured in the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, south of Austin.
    • : found in nature rather than produced artificially, as a mineral substance: the difference between native and industrial diamonds.
    • : Chemistry, Mineralogy. occurring in nature pure or uncombined: native copper.
    • : belonging to a person as a birthright: to deprive a person of his native rights.
    • : Digital Technology. of or relating to software designed specifically for the platform on which it is running: native applications for 64-bit PCs;native mobile apps.of or relating to data interpreted or displayed by the software or hardware for which it was originally encoded: to view the file in its native format.
    • : Archaic. closely related, as by birth.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Sometimes Offensive. one of the people indigenous to a place or country, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.: the natives of Chile.
    • : a person born in a particular place or country: a native of Ohio.
    • : an organism indigenous to a particular region.
    • : British. an oyster reared in British waters, especially in an artificial bed.
    • : Astrology. a person born under a particular planet: Capricorn natives are practical, collected, and reliable allies to have in a crisis.

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Examples

  • The 23-year-old, a native of Panama, has been really sharp since starting 2018 with the Suns.

  • Helicopters are nearly as native to the nation’s capital as go-go and half-smokes.

  • These native apps really allow you to see what the M1 can do.

  • He has been a journalist for more than 40 years, working for newspapers in Hawaii, California, Florida and his native Guam.

  • Pauline Binam is from Cameroon in Central Africa, and she has many native sisters in similar circumstances here, encountering similar travails under the administration’s hardline immigration policies.

  • Moreover, a man who spoke the language natively had great advantage over us, both in preaching and pastoral work.

  • My mother's side of those long months of waiting was never fully delineated, for she was natively reticent and shy of expression.

  • War is thus seen to be a function of social institutions, not of what is natively fixed in human constitution.

  • She was of her world and time, not unsophisticated; but it chanced that she possessed a mind natively maiden.

  • How this thus falling short of a natively richly endowed soul became possible, can be told only from a study of his life.