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precocious

/pri-koh-shuhs/US // prɪˈkoʊ ʃəs //UK // (prɪˈkəʊʃəs) //

早熟,早熟的,早熟的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
    • : prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc.
    • : of or relating to premature development.
    • : Botany. flowering, fruiting, or ripening early, as plants or fruit.bearing blossoms before leaves, as plants.appearing before leaves, as flowers.

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Examples

  • They have been used for decades to treat children who start showing signs of puberty before age 8 or 9, a condition known as precocious puberty.

  • From an early age, she was held to high academic standards and proved a precocious scholar.

  • Here is the one about the precocious tyke who convinced her family to take a chance on a deaf puppy.

  • Rashida Adkins was drawn to journalism as a precocious pre-teen.

  • Not only are puberty blockers reversible, but their original use included assisting cisgender children who were undergoing precocious puberty.

  • The children are precocious and cute and the whole thing is freaking adorable.

  • Do you like him frozen in time as a precocious boy genius doctor with a ridiculous name?

  • The series begins with a voiceover from a 9-year-old boy named Charlie (Griffin Gluck), basically a more precocious Meredith Grey.

  • Heightening his angst, Warren pines for precocious Jessica (Gevinson).

  • The budding relationship between the ornery sexagenarian and the precocious young child ultimately gives the film its momentum.

  • Thus died the greatest statesman of the eighteenth century, and the most precocious in our annals.

  • These childish verses prove a precocious desire for expression, before the right medium had been discovered.

  • Exemplary punishment is to be visited upon me for "precocious godlessness, dangerous tendencies, and insubordination."

  • In crossing to Niagara, we had a specimen of the precocious colonist of 1845.

  • She was very precocious, a thorough student, and would allow nothing to divert her from her studies.