物种起源

物種起源

Wùzhǒng qǐyuán

proper noun

Meanings

1 On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin's 1859 book on evolution by natural selection

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Examples

HSK 5

《物种起源》提出了自然选择的理论。

《 Wùzhǒng qǐyuán 》 tíchū le zìrán xuǎnzé de lǐlùn.

On the Origin of Species put forward the theory of natural selection.

HSK 6

《物种起源》是达尔文最重要的著作。

《 Wùzhǒng qǐyuán 》 shì Dá'ěrwén zuì zhòngyào de zhùzuò.

On the Origin of Species is Darwin's most important work.

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history

Published in London in 1859, its full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The first complete Chinese translation, by 马君武, came out in 1920.

culture

Chinese readers first met Darwin's ideas through 严复's 天演论 (1898), a free rendering of essays by Thomas Huxley. Its phrase 物竞天择 'species compete, nature selects', paired with 适者生存 'survival of the fittest', became a rallying cry of the late-Qing reformers.

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物 wù

种 zhǒng

起 qǐ

源 yuán