我们用短语“it is in someone's genes”来形容某人与其父母的性格或职业选择很相似。
- I love motor racing. The love of speed is in my genes. My father was an ambulance driver.
- Ann is very ambitious. She can't help it, it's in her genes. Her parents arrived in this country penniless and now are big industrialists.
值得注意的是，单词“genealogy”的意思是家谱学、宗谱学。
- I became interested in genealogy after my mother told me that her grandfather was a pirate.
