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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.
大自然最让人惊叹的是它的无限多样性。
...grasses that grow wild in nature.
自然界里各种野生的草
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N-SING
本质;性质
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.
夏普先生不愿就被调查问题的性质发表评论。
...the ambitious nature of the programme...
雄心勃勃的计划
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N-SING
性格;性情;禀性;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...
耶娅觉得她不安分的个性不适合包办的婚姻。
She trusted people. That was her nature...
她信任别人，这是她的天性。
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PHRASE
违反自然;反常
If you say that something is against nature, you think that it is unnatural.
例句
All these activities are against nature.
所有这些活动都是违背常理的。
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PHRASE
回归自然;返璞归真
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.
她特别渴望离开城市，回归自然。
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PHRASE
按其固有的性质;就其本质
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...
维和行动本身的特点决定了预先制订计划很困难。
One could argue that smoking, by its very nature, is addictive.
有人可能认为抽烟从本质上说就具有成瘾性。
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PHRASE
(委婉说法)内急，需要去洗手间
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.
抱歉我要去趟洗手间。
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PHRASE
理所当然地;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，大家当然没能察觉到。
Many have already died, and in the nature of things many more will die.
很多人已经死去，更多的人势必也将会死去。
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PHRASE
具有…性质的;与…类似的;…之类的
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，出现了某种向类似多元体系转变的趋势。
It was in the nature of a debate rather than an argument.
那更像是一场辩论，而不是争吵。
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PHRASE
第二天性;习性
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...
预先计划一直是她的习惯。
It's not easy at first, but it soon becomes second nature.
起初不容易，但很快就习惯了。