1·Hostility towards outsiders is characteristic of both human and nonhuman animals.
敌视外来者是人类和其他动物共有的特征。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Some animals possess the characteristic of man.
有些动物具有人类的特征。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
3·Some animals possess the characteristic of humans.
有些动物具有人类的特征。
4·The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society.
对交流的需求是人类社会最重要的一个特征。
5·The most striking characteristic of the plants of the alpine zone is their low growth form.
高寒地区植物最显著的特点是生长缓慢。
6·This strange characteristic of concrete made a significant contribution to the success of the Roman Empire.
混凝土的这种奇特特性为罗马帝国的成功作出了重大贡献。
7·Population cycles are characteristic of small mammals, and they sometimes appear to be brought about by predators.
数量的周期循环是小型哺乳动物的特征，它们有时似乎是由捕食者造成的。
8·One characteristic of Earth's orbit is its eccentricity, the degree to which the orbit is an ellipse rather than a circle.
地球轨道的一个特点是它的离心率，也就是轨道是椭圆而不是圆形的程度。
9·For the most part, they are rather impersonal and anonymous, and that is in many ways the characteristic of Hobbes' sovereign.
就大多数而言，他们是非个人的和匿名的，这在很多方面是霍布斯认为君主应当具有的特性。
10·Play appears to be a developmental characteristic of animals with fairly sophisticated nervous systems, mainly birds and mammals.
玩耍似乎是具有相当复杂的神经系统的动物（主要是鸟类和哺乳动物）的一种发育特征。