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natural history

自然历史,自然史,自然科学史,自然历史学

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
    • : the study of these sciences.

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Examples

  • Experts on the geography and natural history of their boroughs, they are responsible for environmental education and park management.

  • He pursued natural history in his spare time and participated in numerous expeditions.

  • If you strike out searching on your own, you can probably find fascinating examples of fluorescence at your local natural history museum.

  • Unlike Helen Macdonald in her exquisite and highly personal memoir, “H Is for Hawk,” Meiburg gives us the striated caracara as a way to explore natural history and to consider the work of Charles Darwin and William Henry Hudson.

  • It was about the relationship as well as the natural history.

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.

  • The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.

  • “Lockheed Martin has a long history of misrepresenting facts,” Wheeler added.

  • Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

  • It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.

  • The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.

  • The place was well defended by earthworks and natural parapets, and for several hours the issue of the contest was doubtful.

  • In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.

  • Had not this Indian plant been discovered, the whole history of some portions of America would have been far different.