trait是什么意思,trait怎么用
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trait
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📰 外刊例句
The peculiar traits of each emerging market, from macroeconomic management to productivity growth, will have a greater say in how its economy performs as well as how investors view it. 每个新兴市场的独特特征,从宏观经济管理到生产力增长,都将对其经济表现以及投资者对它的态度产生更大的影响。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[noun] a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person
[名词] (通常属于某一个人的)一种显著的品质或特征
💡 深入解读
看到 trait 一词,即便是对其不熟悉的,也容易联想起两个以其结尾的熟词, 一个是小站(微信公众号:田间小站)之前在熟词僻义栏目推送过的strait,另一个则是用来表示“肖像、半身画像、半身照”的常见词 portrait 。就 trait 单词本身来说,其最早源自拉丁语trahere(拖、拉),15世纪末期经法语trait(线条、笔划、特征)进入英语,最初也是用来指铅笔、钢笔等的“一比、一划”。因此, one trait of sth 也就可以用来表示“某物的一点、少许、微量”。在工作生活中,由于每个人的字迹都带有自身特色,所以常用签名作为身份证明。而在英语中, trait 就相应被用来表示个人的“特征、特性、特点”,也可以用于形容某个民族、种族或某一类型的人等,多指其独特鲜明的性格或思想品质,强调先天秉赋的持久行为模式或性格特征,
比如:
Her sense of humour is one of her better traits.具有幽默感是她更讨人喜欢的特点之一。
Timidity is by no means a female-only trait.胆小绝非女性才具有的特征。
Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was the accent of her virtue.双语名著
hallmark: a feature or quality that is typical of sb/sth attribute: a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something feature: a distinctive attribute or aspect of something她从不曾说谎,从不曾为任何目的、或无目的地说过一句不实在的、不是真正实在的话,这一点便是散普丽斯姆姆突出的性格,也是她美德中的特点。出自法国作家维克多·雨果的长篇小说《悲惨世界》(Les Misérables,原意为“悲惨的人们”“可怜的人们”)。同近义词
🔍 同近义词
- hallmark: a feature or quality that is typical of sb/sth
- attribute: a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something
- feature: a distinctive attribute or aspect of something

