tập nhiễm
Definition
Verb:
- To acquire through repeated exposure or habit: To gradually absorb or adopt a characteristic, habit, or trait through continuous contact, practice, or influence.
- To contract (a habit): Often used for negative habits or behaviors that one picks up from one's environment over time.
Noun (less common):
- Acquired characteristic: In biology, a trait or modification developed in an organism during its lifetime due to environmental influence, as opposed to an inherited genetic trait.
Usage Examples
Verb:
- Trẻ con dễ tập nhiễm thói quen từ bạn bè. (Children easily acquire habits from their friends.)
- Anh ấy đã tập nhiễm thói hút thuốc sau vài tháng làm việc ở đó. (He contracted the smoking habit after a few months working there.)
Noun:
- Thuyết tập nhiễm của Lamarck nay không còn được chấp nhận rộng rãi. (Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics is no longer widely accepted.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in educational or moral contexts to warn about the gradual, often unconscious, adoption of negative behaviors.
- In formal biological contexts, it relates to the concept of "inheritance of acquired characteristics" ().
Variants and Related Words
- Sự tập nhiễm (n): The process or state of acquiring a habit or trait.
- Sự tập nhiễm ngôn ngữ xảy ra một cách tự nhiên ở trẻ nhỏ. (Language acquisition occurs naturally in young children.)
Synonyms
- Acquire: To gain or learn something.
- Contract: To catch or develop (a habit or illness).
- Pick up: To acquire a skill or habit informally.
- Absorb: To take in information or a quality gradually.
Antonyms
- Lose: To cease to have a habit.
- Unlearn: To discard knowledge or habits.
- Inherit: To receive a genetic trait from ancestors.
Related Concepts
- Thói quen (habit): A settled or regular tendency or practice.
- Môi trường (environment): The surroundings or conditions influencing development.
- Tiếp xúc (contact): The state of touching or being exposed to something.