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trait

noun
 
🔊/treɪt/
🔊/treɪt/
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  1. a particular quality in your personality（人的个性的）特征，特性，特点
    • personality traits个性特点
    • Awareness of class is a typically British trait.阶层意识是英国人的典型特征。
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    • She shares several character traits with her father.她的性格和她父亲有一些相似之处。
    • We do not know which behavioural traits are inherited and which acquired.我们不知道哪些行为特征是遗传的，哪些是后天养成的。
    • a collection of traits associated with schizophrenia与精神分裂症有关的众多特征
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • admirable
    • attractive
    • desirable
    • …
    verb + trait
    • have
    • possess
    • lack
    • …
    trait + verb
    • (be) associated with
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’. An early sense was ‘stroke of the pen or pencil in a picture’, giving rise to the sense ‘a particular feature of mind or character’ (mid 18th cent.).