precocious
precocious 英 [prɪˈkəʊʃəs] 美 [prɪˈkoʊʃəs]
adj. 早熟的;过早发育的
- That high school hoops phenom who plays like an NBA pro? The sixth grader who's already asking questions about organic chemistry? They're both precocious — meaning they're way beyond their years in skill or knowledge.
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- adj. 早熟的;过早发育的
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1. She writes about herself and her pubescent, precocious, and, when necessary, cunning behavior with the same sobriety she uses to describe everything else.
她描写她本人,她的早熟 ,青春期的困惑,而且在必要的时候,她利用同样节制的狡猾行为去描写所有别的事情。
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2. Tennessee was always doing something. He was like a precocious child, really.
田纳西总在做事,停不下来,他好像一个早熟的孩子,真的就是。
- precocious (adj.) 1640s, "developed before the usual time" (of plants), with -ous + Latin praecox (genitive praecocis) "maturing early," from prae "before" (see pre-) + coquere "to ripen," literally "to cook" (from PIE root *pekw- "to cook, ripen"). Originally of flowers or fruits. Figurative use, of persons, dates from 1670s. Related: Precociously; precociousness.
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