innate; congenital
Example Sentences
虽然这名年轻残疾运动员先天身体机能受限，但他凭借后天超常的艰苦训练终于夺得残奥会金牌。
suī rán zhè míng nián qīng cán jí yùn dòng yuán xiān tiān shēn tǐ jī néng shòu xiàn, dàn tā píng jiè hòu tiān chāo cháng de jiān kǔ xùn liàn zhōng yú duó de cán ào huì jīn pái.
Although this young disabled athlete was born with limited physical functions, he finally won the Paralympic gold medal with his extraordinary hard training.
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Related Words & Compounds
congenital; intrinsic; innate
to suffer from a congenital deficiency; to have an inherent weakness
(old) Down syndrome; trisomy 21
nature versus nurture
birth defect
to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life / (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time
to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4] by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4 yan1])
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