英语词汇“nature”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

the physical world in terms of landscape, plants, and animals, as distinct from human creations

a creative force regarded as controlling these phenomena

a way of life taken as representing mankind's original or natural condition

the physical constitution or motivating forces of an organism

the inherent character or constitution of a person or thing; essence

an individual's inborn or inherited characteristics, as distinct from those attributable to nurture nurture¹

a kind or class of thing

letters of a confidential nature

Nature can refer either to the external world or to individuals, and contrasts the biological with the cultural or the artificial. Human nature now usually refers to basic biological drives, to which cultural attributes are added; but in Aristotelian thought, human nature was the fullest development of an individual's being. Acts are sometimes justified as being natural; but the justification is rarely convincing and is referred to in ethics as the naturalistic fallacy — Dr Mark Ridley

against nature

unnatural

in a state of nature

quite naked

in a morally unregenerate state

in an uncivilized state

in an uncultivated condition

in the nature of things

inevitable or inevitably

in the nature of

by way of or describable as (a certain thing)

somebody's better nature

somebody's capacity for kindness, tolerance, etc

the nature of the beast

the unalterable character of something

[Middle English via Old French from Latin natura, from natus, past part. of nasci to be born]

nature/ʹnaychə/ noun