a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person (尤指人的)特征,特点 the traditionally British trait of self-denigration. 英国人自我贬抑的传统特点。 ■a genetically determined characteristic 遗传特征
语源
mid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin tractus 'drawing, draught' (see tract). An early sense was 'stroke of the pen or pencil in a picture', giving rise to the sense 'a particular feature of mind or character' (mid 18th cent.)