今日の単語 innate
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１．innate が今日の単語です。in + nate nateで何を想像しますか。ラテン系の言語を学んだことがあるとイメージは楽かもしれませんね。では、ネットニュースから例文をピックアップしてみましょう。
State’s new poet laureate and Lummi tribal member talks about ‘innate music of language’ – Rena Priest, a Bellingham writer and member of the Lummi Nation, has become the first Native American poet to serve as Washington state’s poet laureate. Her two-year term began April 15. ( from THE BELLINGHAM HERALD )
innate music of language- 美しいですね。やはり作家さんは違います。
The Innate Immune Response Characterizes Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome（from docwirenews)
innate immune response は自然免疫反応です。ということは innateは？
Sue Wheeler, retired Kansas City teacher with ‘innate’ desire to help kids, dies at 90 - Sue Wheeler, a longtime educator from Kansas City remembered for her devotion to helping others well into her old age, died April 3 while in hospice care. She was 90. (from Kansas City Star)
子供だけでなく他人に献身的に尽くせる人。
It is generally believed that music learning ability is innate.
どんなに頑張ってもできないことってたくさんありますよね。そんなことが得意な人を見たときに言いたくなるセリフ。。
２．意外とシンプルでわかりやすかったですね。英英辞典と英和辞典で意味を確認しておきましょう。
an innate quality or ability is one that you were born with, not one that you have learned
(of a quality) which you are born with, or which is present naturally
existing in one from birth; inborn, native
inherent in the essential character of something
originating in or arising from the intellect or the constitution of the mind, rather than learned through experience
生まれながらの、天から授かった、生まれつきの、持って生まれた、生得の、生得的な、
固有の、本質的な
今日の単語は
innate 生まれつきの
でした