Picture a circle that has been closed for a long time. Whatever is inside it came from inside it, and nothing has arrived from outside for generations. The same features keep coming round, the same weaknesses too, and after a while nobody in the circle can see what is missing, because there is nothing there to compare with. That closed circle is the one picture behind all three uses — the only thing that changes is what is being kept inside it.

可以想成一個關了很久的圈子。裡面有的東西,都是裡面自己長出來的。已經好幾代沒有新的東西進來了。同樣的特徵一再出現,同樣的弱點也一再出現。久了以後,圈子裡的人看不出缺了什麼,因為沒有東西可以比。這個「關起來的圈子」是三個用法共同的畫面。變的只是圈子裡關著的是什麼:血緣、一個人的性格,或是一群人的工作方式。

From the word’s history

The packet gives the make-up directly: inbred is the past participle of inbreed, which is in- plus bred. So the word literally says bred within, and the source's own first gloss for the character sense is 'bred within; innate'.

來源把組成寫得很清楚:inbred 是動詞 inbreed 的過去分詞,也就是 in-(在裡面)加上 bred(繁殖、長出來的)。字面上就是「在裡面長出來的」。來源在講性格那個意思時,第一句解釋正好也是 bred within(在裡面長出來的),所以兩個用法的關係在字典裡就看得到,不用另外推測。

Wiktionary, "inbred"

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