Reversion

(noun.) turning in the opposite direction.

(noun.) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation).

(noun.) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee).

整理:皮尔斯

• It is a case almost certainly of reversion. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She was indeed, as her fellow Martian had said of her, an atavism; a dear and precious reversion to a former type of loved and loving ancestor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• These two distinct cases of reversion are often confounded together by those who have written on inheritance. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Pitt can't be such an infernal villain as to sell the reversion of the living. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This rare event is probably a case of reversion to the long-lost, aboriginal instinct of nidification. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The greater or less force of inheritance and reversion determine whether variations shall endure. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In many cases we do not know what the aboriginal stock was, and so could not tell whether or not nearly perfect reversion had ensued. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The money which I brought into the family, sir, Lady George cried out-- You purchased a contingent reversion with it, the Marquis said darkly. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The reversion falling in soon after they were married, Fledgeby's father laid hold of the cash for his separate use and benefit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It might further be expected that the species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to long-lost characters. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• With both varieties and species, reversions to long-lost characters occasionally occur. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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