Heredity

(noun.) the total of inherited attributes.

(noun.) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next.

手打:莫林

• Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am sure that you cannot fail to be delighted with the traces of heredity shown in the p's and in the tails of the g's. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Thus taken, the influence of heredity is opposed to that of the environment, and the efficacy of the latter belittled. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• That life, if there is anything in heredity, is very far from finished; and while it continues there will be new achievement. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Now, in every fiber of his being, heredity spoke louder than training. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In this sense, heredity is a limit of education. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The relation of heredity and environment is well expressed in the case of language. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And so heredity, from being a curse, may become a blessing. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But for educational purposes heredity means neither more nor less than the original endowment of an individual. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

录入:库尔特