Incipient

(adj.) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; 'incipient civil disorder'; 'an incipient tumor'; 'a vague inchoate idea' .

乔斯林编辑

• 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. 维莱特.
• It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species attain the rank of species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Nevertheless according to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was now the season of incipient preparation for dinner. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• We have seen that in each country it is the species belonging to the larger genera which oftenest present varieties or incipient species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Lucy, has he not rather the air of an incipient John Bull? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Each nation lives in a state of suppressed hostility and incipient war with its neighbors. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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. 维莱特.

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