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英语单词 Darwinian
英美音标 英 [dɑː'wɪniən] 美 [dɑː'wɪniən]
中文释义 adj.达尔文的;达尔文学说的
n.达尔文学徒;进化论者
英语例句 (1) Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
中文例句 (1) 现代新闻靠达尔文的粗俗者生存法则证明自己的存在。
vocabulary简明 Use Darwinian to describe something that relates to the scientist Charles Darwin or his "survival of the fittest" theory of evolution.
vocabulary扩展 A naturalist who studies evolution and natural selection — scientific theories that were first developed in the 1800's by Charles Darwin — might call herself a Darwinian. The work and writing of Darwin himself are also called Darwinian, particularly evolution. Likewise, anything that resembles the process of natural selection or "survival of the fittest" itself, like a competition in which only the strongest athletes make it to the finish line, is commonly described as Darwinian.

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