Well the shoulder joint's something like a ball and socket joint, but it's different to the hip; the hip's a true-born socket, where the ball is held by the socket.
The true-born Athenians are keen and critical auditors, constant in their attendance at plays and spectacles.
John was a true-born features journalist; he knew the job of the ‘I’ word.
For just a moment, she sounds like a true-born radical, a daughter of the liberation fighters who freed much of Africa from colonialism when she was a child.
During imperial times, that archetypal native, John Bull, was swaggeringly sure of himself: common sense told this true-born Englishman that he was also a Briton and as such the representative of an empire that straddled the globe.
‘When America speaks from its heart, it retreats into a language that none but its true-born citizens can begin to understand.’
Definition of true-born in US English:
true-born
adjectiveˈtro͞oˌbôrnˈtruˌbɔrn
attributiveOf a specified kind by birth; genuine.
天生的；真正的，十足的
a true-born criminal
一个地道的罪犯。
Example sentencesExamples
The true-born Athenians are keen and critical auditors, constant in their attendance at plays and spectacles.
John was a true-born features journalist; he knew the job of the ‘I’ word.
During imperial times, that archetypal native, John Bull, was swaggeringly sure of himself: common sense told this true-born Englishman that he was also a Briton and as such the representative of an empire that straddled the globe.
Well the shoulder joint's something like a ball and socket joint, but it's different to the hip; the hip's a true-born socket, where the ball is held by the socket.
For just a moment, she sounds like a true-born radical, a daughter of the liberation fighters who freed much of Africa from colonialism when she was a child.
‘When America speaks from its heart, it retreats into a language that none but its true-born citizens can begin to understand.’