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词汇 nature
释义 nature
noun
uk /ˈneɪ.tʃər/ us /ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/

naturenoun (LIFE)


A2[ U ]
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, and growth: 大自然,自然界
her love of nature她对自然界的热爱
This new technique of artificially growing cells copies what actually happens in nature.这种人工培育细胞的新技术是模仿自然界实际发生的现象。
a nature article/book/programme自然类文章/书籍/节目
 Nature
the force that is responsible for physical life and that is sometimes spoken of as a person: 自然力
Feeling tired-out is Nature's way of telling you to rest.感觉疲惫不堪是身体在提醒你该休息了。
Nature gave these tiny creatures the ability to reproduce quickly when food is abundant.自然赋予这些微生物在食物充足时快速繁殖的能力。
Lying naked in the grass, among the trees and birds, he felt he had communed with nature.
He lived in close communion with nature.
But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.我跑题了。回到我刚才说过的话上来,这首诗反映了诗人对大自然的热爱和自己的宗教信仰。
Fishermen are always at the mercy of the forces of nature .
Modernist architecture tries to conquer nature instead of working with it.现代主义建筑试图征服自然,而不是与自然共处。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The Earth & outer space - general words
ablate
anti-gravity
atmosphere
atmospherically
auroral
geocentric
gravity
horizon
hydrosphere
infinite
ionospheric
lithosphere
lithospheric
macrocosm
mesosphere
mesospheric
the Big Bang
underground
weightlessness
zero gravity

naturenoun (TYPE)


C1[ S or U ]
the type or main characteristic of something: 种类;特性;本质
What was the nature of his inquiry?他究竟想问什么?
Motor-racing is by nature a dangerous sport.赛车本质上是一项危险运动。
 be in the nature of things
to be usual and expected: 是正常的,是理所当然的
There are problems in every relationship - it's in the nature of things.每段感情都难免会出现问题——这是必然的。
Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.连警方也为令人发指的杀戮行径所震惊。
If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.如果你认为这些交通问题可以通过修更多的路来解决,你就完全曲解了问题的本质。
The book is full of interesting observations on/about the nature of musical composition.这本书里有许多关于音乐创作本质的有趣评论。
By its nature, terrorism is designed to strike at the heart of our democratic values.从本质上讲,恐怖主义意欲破坏我们民主价值观的核心。
Students, she complained, had nothing better to do than spend whole days philosophizing about the nature of truth.她抱怨说,学生们除了整天空谈什么真理的本质外,就再也没有什么更好的事情可做了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Conditions and characteristics
-ance
-ibility
ability
adverse conditions
age
ambience
appearance
aspect
good/bad karmaidiom
have it in youidiom
hood
humanity
presentation
shape
shine
trait
trappings
unaffiliated
undercurrent
vibe

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Habitual and customary

naturenoun (CHARACTER)


B2[ C or U ]
a person's character: 性格,本性
As a child, Juliana had a very sensitive nature.朱丽安娜小时候性格非常敏感。
[ + to infinitive ]It's not really in her nature to be aggressive.她本性并不好斗。
He is by nature inclined to be lazy.他生性懒惰。
I think she takes advantage of his good nature.我认为她利用他善良的本性占他的便宜。
Her calm nature served as a natural counterbalance to his excitable personality.
His poems reveal the duality of his nature, the joy and hope, the fear and despair.他的诗揭示了他的双重本性,既有欢乐且充满希望的一面,又有恐惧失望的一面。
The vicar praised what he called her "kind and forbearing nature".
Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.连警方也为令人发指的杀戮行径所震惊。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mind and personality
-hearted
-heartedly
-heartedness
alexithymia
allism
allistic
alter ego
ambivert
Asperger's syndrome
gender identity
gestaltist
neurotypical
neurotypicality
noddle
noetic
noggin
psychoanalysis
psychoanalytic
subconscious
superego

Idioms


be the nature of the beast
go/get back to nature
let nature take its course

nature | American Dictionary


nature
noun
us/ˈneɪ·tʃər/

naturenoun (LIFE)


[ U ]
all the animals and plants in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that exist or happen independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, reproduction, and growth:
As a young man he loved hiking and being close to nature.
This technique of growing cells copies what actually happens in nature.
[ U ]
The force that is responsible for physical life is often called nature, and is sometimes spoken of as a person:
Feeling stressed is Nature’s way of telling you to relax.

naturenoun (TYPE)


[ C/U ]
the type or main characteristic (of something):
[ U ]The problem is delicate in nature.
[ C ]Nothing of a secret nature can happen in that household.

naturenoun (CHARACTER)


[ C/U ]
the character of a person, or the characteristics a person is born with:
[ C ]She’s always had a sunny nature.
[ U ]She is by nature a gentle soul.

Idiom


the nature of things

Examples of nature


nature
The players effectively brought out the essentially lyrical nature of the piece.
So qualitative researchers are as likely to influence the nature of the research setting as are quantitative researchers in artificial experiments.
Given the qualitative nature of the survey, the results were interpreted and put in relation to existing estimates in the literature.
The qualitative nature of the discussion in the text does not depend on having only one person.
Given the nature of our research questions, we needed to target organic shoppers.
The stoichiometry of the exact reaction will depend on the nature of the organic matter involved, here assumed to be saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon.
Related, although somewhat different considerations apply to texts of purely theoretical nature, too.
We should note, however, that it is questionable to what extent such taxonomies reflect the nature of the underlying psychological processes.
Numerous substances are found in nature and in the body that function as protective agents against oxygen-free radicals.
The difficulty of taking such steps returns us to the linked nature of lingua franca and power.
The results showed that the overall form returned to the conservative nature of the original rule-based melodies.
The attraction of what might at first blush seem a redundant translation was that nature could speak in a clear and undistorted voice.
However, differences in the nature of wage labour between the two regions were very strong, as a result of the specific route of the transition.
However, they did not take the nature of the representations into account.
As explained, these representations result from the nature of visual processing.
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Collocations withnature


nature

These are words often used in combination with nature.

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addictive nature
First, they challenged the idea that smokers exercised choice either by emphasising the addictive nature of cigarettes or characterising smoking as an illness.
adversarial nature
It would be reasonable to assume that custody disputes, with their adversarial nature, would lead to the infiltration of criticism of therapeutic ways of knowing into the legal field.
aggressive nature
Patients seek organ transplantation as therapy for their advanced disease because of its aggressivenature.
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