autogenesis

中文含义:自发生,自起源

英语词性:noun

美式发音:ô-tə-jěn-ə-sĭs

同义词:self-generation, spontaneous generation

易混淆单词:autonomy(自主权)

双语例句:

1. The myth of autogenesis, the idea that life arises spontaneously from nonliving matter, was firmly debunked by Louis Pasteur’s experiments in the 1860s.(路易斯·巴斯德在19世纪60年代的实验,彻底驳斥了自发生的神话:生命自然而然地从非生物物质中产生的想法。)

2. Some scientists believe that life on Earth may have originated through autogenesis, while others think it was brought here from outer space.(有些科学家认为地球上的生命可能是通过自发生成起源的,而另一些人则认为它是从外层空间带到这里的。)