native: implies birth or origin in a place or region and may suggest compatibility with it: a ~ New Yorker.  native land/tongue/Americans/animals and plants祖国/母语/最早居住在美洲的印地安人/原生动植物


indigenous: applies to species or races and adds to native the implication of not having been introduced from elsewhere: maize is ~ to America.         又如indigenous culture/language/plant/jet fighter当(本)地文化/语言/植物/国产战斗机           物种species人种race       maize玉米玉蜀黍


endemic: implies being indigenous and peculiar to or restricted in a region: edelweiss is ~ in the Alps.     （endemic有2个意思 1、特产的地方的growing or existing only in a certain place，如seven kinds of grapes are endemic in/to Tulufan吐鲁番有7种葡萄是特产，endemic wildlife特有野生动物，如the disease is endemic in/to this area地方病  2、普遍的common，如a distrust of strangers is endemic in/to this community社区居民普遍对陌生人不信任，如the endemic problem of racism/street crime普遍存在的种族主义/街头犯罪问题, 如malaria/corruption/polio is endemic in many countries疟疾/腐败/小儿麻痹症在许多国家普遍/流行）


aboriginal: implies having no known race preceding in occupancy of the region: the ~ people of Australia.


native出生地的母语的: 指出生成长于该地，因而适应，indigenous本地原产的: 指物种产品文化等产自本地，而非引入，endemic特产的地方的: 指物种等是该地特有，aboriginal土著的: 指最早居住的种族


记忆方法: 1）首字母NIEA把Af转90度，变成NIKE<==本地

         2）练习一下

         3）本地的意思是属于某地mean belonging to a locality.