Incipient
[ɪn'sɪpɪənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; 'incipient civil disorder'; 'an incipient tumor'; 'a vague inchoate idea' .
乔斯林編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
弗洛伊德手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Beginning, commencing, inchoate.
手打:莫林
同義詞及反義詞：
[See INCEPTION_and_BEGINNING]
校對:佩德罗
解釋/意思:
adj. beginning.—ns. Incip′ience Incip′iency.—adv. Incip′iently.
达伦編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species attain the rank of species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Nevertheless according to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It was now the season of incipient preparation for dinner. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- We have seen that in each country it is the species belonging to the larger genera which oftenest present varieties or incipient species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Lucy, has he not rather the air of an incipient John Bull? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- His eye became a degree less opaque: it was as though an incipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Each nation lives in a state of suppressed hostility and incipient war with its neighbors. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But I too plainly felt this would never do: the slightest hesitation would have been fatal to the incipient treaty of peace. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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