Definition of "nature" in 英语

noun

1. (uncountable, often capitalized) The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.

   • Freamon: She too young for you, boy... They get younger, William. Skinnier too. You don't... 's just the nature of things. Age is age, fat is fat, nature’s nature. Moreland: Pitiful. Freamon: Pitiless. Nature don't care. Nature just is.
   • As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it's worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.
   • Nature doesn't lie.
   • The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics.
   • Tectonic activity is part of nature, so there's no way to stop earthquakes.

2. The particular way someone or something is, especially

3. The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment.

   • Nature is unable to repair the extensive injury.

4. A requirement or powerful impulse of the body's physical form, especially

5. (now rare) A product of the body's physical form, especially semen and vaginal fluids, menstrual fluid, and (obsolete) feces.

   • If a man want to break his wife from some man, he steals this dishcloth... an' he ketches her nachure in this dishcloth...

6. (now rare) A part of the body's physical form, especially (obsolete) the female genitalia.

   • ... offer her the Horse, and... wash her Nature with cold Water ...

verb

1. (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.