natural selection
英 [ˌnætʃrəl sɪˈlekʃn]
美 [ˌnætʃrəl sɪˈlekʃn]
n. 自然选择; 物竞天择
牛津词典
noun
- 自然选择;物竞天择
the process by which plants, animals, etc. that can adapt to their environment survive and reproduce, while the others disappear
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT (生物的)自然选择,物竞天择,适者生存
Natural selectionis a process by which species of animals and plants that are best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce, while those that are less well adapted die out.- Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
自然选择确保只有最适应环境的物种得以存活下来,把基因传给下一代。
- Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
英英释义
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
双语例句
- It's Darwin's principle of natural selection in action.
这是达尔文的自然选择原则的行动。 - Mutation and speciation have usually been evolved responses to the environment and competition, with natural selection determining which new traits become widely disseminated.
通常,突变和物种形成的进化,取决于环境和竞争来,哪些新特性普遍传播则取决于自然选择。 - In this case, natural selection would tend to add to the stature of the plant.
在此种情况下,自然选择就有增加植物高度的倾向。 - Natural selection has tended to reduce this randomization.
自然选择往往倾向于减少这种随机化现象。 - Viruses have genes, can reproduce and are subject to the evolutionary pressures imposed by natural selection.
病毒有基因,能再生,需要应对自然选择的进化压力。 - I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.
我确信自然选择是主要的但不是唯一的手段。 - But the context of natural selection defines the narrow limits of the argument that Friedman and savage developed.
但自然选择这个大背景,限定了弗里德曼和萨维奇所提论点的狭小适用范围。 - Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor.
自然选择在穷人和富人之间几乎不起作用。 - Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
自然选择确保只有最适应环境的物种得以存活下来,把基因传给下一代。 - Financial history is essentially the result of institutional mutation and natural selection.
金融史实质上就是制度突变和自然选择的结果。