名词

1. 大自然;自然界
Nature is all the animals, plants, and other things in the world that are not made by people, and all the events and processes that are not caused by people.

2. 本质;性质
The nature of something is its basic quality or character.

3. 性格;性情;禀性;天性
Someone's nature is their character, which they show by the way they behave.

4. 违反自然;反常
If you say that something is against nature, you think that it is unnatural.

5. 回归自然;返璞归真
If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.

6. 按其固有的性质;就其本质
If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.

7. (委婉说法)内急，需要去洗手间
Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.

8. 理所当然地;必然地
If you say that something is in the nature of things, you mean that you would expect it to happen in the circumstances mentioned.

9. 具有…性质的;与…类似的;…之类的
If you say that one thing is in the nature of another, you mean that it is like the other thing.

10. 第二天性;习性
If a way of behaving is second nature to you, you do it almost without thinking because it is easy for you or obvious to you.

1. the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

e.g. it is his nature to help others

2. the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

e.g. it is the nature of fire to burn
the true nature of jealousy

3. a particular type of thing

e.g. problems of this type are very difficult to solve
he's interested in trains and things of that nature
matters of a personal nature

4. the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.

e.g. they tried to preserve nature as they found it

5. a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

e.g. the laws of nature
nature has seen to it that men are stronger than women