inchoate
inchoate 英 [ɪnˈkəʊət] 美 [ɪnˈkoʊət]
adj. 早期的；刚开始的；未充分发展的 vt. 开始 vi. 开始
名词复数:inchoates
- Inchoate means just beginning to form. You can have an inchoate idea, like the earliest flickers of images for your masterpiece, or an inchoate feeling, like your inchoate sense of annoyance toward your sister's new talking parrot.
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- adj. 早期的；刚开始的；未充分发展的
- vt. 开始
- vi. 开始
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1. What's the point of our current world order, that inchoate mess of nation-states and petty geopolitical divisions, when we have far bigger fish — or alien planets — to fry?
当我们有更大的目标，像外星星球之类的存在时，现在包含着乱七八糟的国家和细小的地域政治分支的世界统治还有何意义？
- inchoate (adj.) "recently or just begun," 1530s, from Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare, alteration of incohare "commence, begin," probably originally "to hitch up," traditionally derived from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + a verb from cohum "strap (fastened to the oxen's yoke)," a word of obscure origin. De Vaan says that as, incohere "is a frequent verb, ... its meaning can easily have derived from 'to yoke a plough to a team of oxen' ..., in other words, 'to start work.' Thus, there might be a core of truth in the ancient connection of cohum with a yoke."
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