incipient是什么意思,incipient怎么用

分类:每日一词 浏览量:5

incipient

SAT TEM8 GMAT GRE


📰 外刊例句

If the incipient boom is to produce better results, governments and firms must learn to adopt best practice from around the world. 眼下刚刚露头的热潮若要产生更好的结果,政府和企业就必须学会采纳世界各地的最佳实践。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[adjective] beginning to happen or develop
[形容词] 开始发生或发展的


💡 深入解读

Incipient 是一个容易与小站(微信公众号:田间小站)前不久推送的insipid在含义上相混淆的单词,两者可以一并联想记忆。该词源自拉丁语incipere(开始、着手、创始)的过去分词incipientem,17世纪60年代进入英语后相应用来表示“刚开始的、刚出现的、早期的、初始的”,常作正式用语使用且一般仅用在名词前,主要用来形容刚开始形成或变得明显的正处于初始阶段的事物,

比如:

曙光

incipient light of day

早期癌症

an incipient cancer

刚养成的习惯

an incipient habit

刚出现的经济复苏

the incipient economic recovery

evidence of incipient tension between capital and labour劳资关系开始趋于紧张的迹象


📚 名著用例

And in the midst of wailing women and the incipient labour of my mother who had been pushed into it by grief and the tearing of Mary Pereira's hair there was a knock; a servant announced Dr Schaapsteker; who handed my grandfather a little bottle and said, 'I make no bones about it: this is kill or cure. Two drops exactly; then wait and see.' 女人们嚎啕大哭,我母亲心急如焚,又出现了即将临产的早期症状,玛丽·佩雷拉扯着自己的头发。就在闹哄哄乱成一团时候,传来了敲门的声音,仆人通报说沙阿普斯特克博士来了,他递给我外公一个小瓶子,说道:“我就照直说了,这东西不是送命,就是能治好毛病。只能用两滴,然后等着吧。”

— 出自《印裔英国作家萨尔曼·鲁西迪(Salman Rushdie,又译萨尔曼·拉什迪)在1981年出版的长篇小说《午夜之子》( Midnight's Children )。》


🔍 同近义词

  • emerging: becoming apparent or prominent
  • emergent: in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent
  • impending: (of an event regarded as threatening or significant) about to happen; forthcoming
微信微博复制链接