Then, havi ng inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the surface of the land and water-courses; later he pursued these studies in Flanders. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Of the two sons, the eldest, Arthur, inherited the title and estates. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
He returned to London, left the army, and went away to the East, with a considerable sum of money which he inherited from his mother. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
So, Miss Summerson, she would say to me with stately triumph, this, you see, is the fortune inherited by my son. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
And I never knew much of my father, beyond what my mother told me; but he inherited the musical talents. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
The appetite for admiration and small capacity for self-controul which I inherited from my father, nursed by adversity, made me daring and reckless. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Had he inherited it? 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
So it was that Charles, his grandson, inherited most of the American continent and between a third and a half of what the Turks had left of Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Changed habits produce an inherited effect as in the period of the flowering of plants when transported from one climate to another. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
He inherited the Blackwater property while still a young man. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Ryland was a man of obscure birth and of immense wealth, inherited from his father, who had been a manufacturer. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
With cats, for instance, one naturally takes to catching rats, and another mice, and these tendencies are known to be inherited. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
She was a singular being, and, like me, inherited much of the peculiar disposition of our father. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Georgy inherited his father's pride, and perhaps thought they were not wrong. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Greek achievement in civilization was native; the civilization of the Alexandrians and Romans was inherited from alien sources. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Any variation which is not inherited is unimportant for us. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
May I ask, Cephalus, whether your fortune was for the most part inherited or acquired by you? 柏拉图.理想国.
I have endeavoured in this chapter briefly to show that the mental qualities of our domestic animals vary, and that the variations are inherited. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
But we learn from the study of our domestic productions that the disuse of parts leads to their reduced size; and that the result is inherited. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Her family, which was large, inherited her views, with the exception of one son who settled in Kentucky before the war. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
It boasts a correct, steady judgment, inherited from 'mamma,' I suppose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
We cannot expect to meet our problems with a few inherited ideas, uncriticised assumptions, a foggy vocabulary, and a machine philosophy. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The tendency to catch rats rather than mice is known to be inherited. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Natural selection, on the principle of qualities being inherited at corresponding ages, can modify the egg, seed, or young as easily as the adult. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
I must have inherited from my father a wild lust for adventure, as well as a hollow where my bump of reverence should be. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.