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N-UNCOUNT
大自然;自然界
Nature is all the animals, plants, and other things in the world that are not made by people, and all the events and processes that are not caused by people.
例句
The most amazing thing about nature is its infinite variety.
大自然最讓人驚嘆的是它的無限多樣性。
...grasses that grow wild in nature.
自然界里各種野生的草
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N-SING
本質(zhì);性質(zhì)
The nature of something is its basic quality or character.
例句
Mr Sharp would not comment on the nature of the issues being investigated.
夏普先生不愿就被調(diào)查問題的性質(zhì)發(fā)表評(píng)論。
...the ambitious nature of the programme...
雄心勃勃的計(jì)劃
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N-SING
性格;性情;稟性;天性
Someone's nature is their character, which they show by the way they behave.
例句
Jeya feels that her ambitious nature made her unsuitable for an arranged marriage...
耶婭覺得她不安分的個(gè)性不適合包辦的婚姻。
She trusted people. That was her nature...
她信任別人，這是她的天性。
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PHRASE
違反自然;反常
If you say that something is against nature, you think that it is unnatural.
例句
All these activities are against nature.
所有這些活動(dòng)都是違背常理的。
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PHRASE
回歸自然;返璞歸真
If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
例句
She was very anxious to get away from cities and back to nature.
她特別渴望離開城市，回歸自然。
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PHRASE
按其固有的性質(zhì);就其本質(zhì)
If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
例句
Peacekeeping, by its nature, makes pre-planning difficult...
維和行動(dòng)本身的特點(diǎn)決定了預(yù)先制訂計(jì)劃很困難。
One could argue that smoking, by its very nature, is addictive.
有人可能認(rèn)為抽煙從本質(zhì)上說就具有成癮性。
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PHRASE
(委婉說法)內(nèi)急，需要去洗手間
Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
例句
I'm afraid I have to answer a call of nature.
抱歉我要去趟洗手間。
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PHRASE
理所當(dāng)然地;必然地
If you say that something is in the nature of things, you mean that you would expect it to happen in the circumstances mentioned.
例句
Of course, in the nature of things, and with a lot of drinking going on, people failed to notice...
喝了那么多酒，大家當(dāng)然沒能察覺到。
Many have already died, and in the nature of things many more will die.
很多人已經(jīng)死去，更多的人勢(shì)必也將會(huì)死去。
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PHRASE
具有…性質(zhì)的;與…類似的;…之類的
If you say that one thing is in the nature of another, you mean that it is like the other thing.
例句
There is movement towards, I think, something in the nature of a pluralistic system...
我想，出現(xiàn)了某種向類似多元體系轉(zhuǎn)變的趨勢(shì)。
It was in the nature of a debate rather than an argument.
那更像是一場(chǎng)辯論，而不是爭(zhēng)吵。
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PHRASE
第二天性;習(xí)性
If a way of behaving is second nature to you, you do it almost without thinking because it is easy for you or obvious to you.
例句
Planning ahead had always come as second nature to her...
預(yù)先計(jì)劃一直是她的習(xí)慣。
It's not easy at first, but it soon becomes second nature.
起初不容易，但很快就習(xí)慣了。