atavistic

adj.

1. 返祖性的
   related to the attitudes and behaviour of the first humans
   1. an atavistic urge/instinct/fear
      返祖倾向 / 本能；返祖性畏惧

1. ADJ-GRADED 返祖性的;原始的
   Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors.
   1. ...an atavistic fear of snakes.
      对蛇的原始恐惧

1. Hence back of all the fine subtleties of the world's economic system there lies this atavistic instinct to hold on to the metal itself.
   因此，不论时代如何变迁，在世界经济体制的背后，始终有一种人类本能的冲动，希望把黄金牢牢掌控在自己手中。
2. As newspapers get rid of the more atavistic elements in their print editions-such as the pages of ( inherently out-of-date) share prices-they also save on ink and paper.
   当报纸出版商在纸质版本中摆脱了诸如广告页面等隔代遗传的因素，他们也节约了墨水和纸张。
3. Does cancer have much dreariness? Can atavistic?
   癌有多可怕？会不会隔代遗传呢？
4. Atavistic genetic freckle have this feature, which is why some parents do not have freckles, but there freckles because their children.
   返祖遗传雀斑有这种功能，这就是为什么有些父母没有雀斑，但有雀斑，因为他们的子女。
5. Beneath their chic and natty appearances they respond to atavistic and primitive impulses.
   在他们那潇洒敏捷的外表里面，涌动着返祖性的原始冲动。
6. If have congenital drawback, be atavistic mostly, should grandson generation is shown, but drug is used when you narrate may fetal development or traumatic cause, belong to acquired reason, that won't arrive hereditarily next generation!
   如有先天性缺陷大都是隔代遗传，要孙辈显现出来，但你述可能胎儿发育时用药或外伤引起，属后天原因，那就不会遗传到下一代！
7. Many of those present felt this atavistic fear.
   在场的许多人都感到了这种原始的恐惧。
8. Certain atavistic Westerners have promulgated the theory that Chinese women liked their modest position in society.
   某些好古的西方人宣传一种理论说，中国妇女喜欢她们在社会中所处的低微地位。
9. He was, because of some atavistic spur or fillip in his own blood, most anxious to attain some sort of social position.
   可是他血液里有祖上那股劲，急于想弄到一个什么社会地位。
10. It would be wrong to interpret them as atavistic remnants.
    把它们解释为老观念的残余，是错误的。
11. The atavistic affection in other words is to increase fall and add its motivity.
    隔代亲，是加大了落差就增加了动力。
12. The Application of Atavistic Forced-evolution Genetic Algorithms in the Optimization of Heat Exchange Networks
    隔代强制进化遗传算法在换热网络优化中应用

adj

1. characteristic of an atavist

   Synonym:    throwback(a)