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a. 早熟的, 像大人的

[医] 早熟的




    precocious
    [ adj ]
    1. characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)

    2. <adj.all>
      a precocious child
      a precocious achievement
    3. appearing or developing early

    4. <adj.all>
      precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias


    Precocious \Pre*co"cious\, a. [L. praecox, -ocis, and
    praecoquus, fr. praecoquere to cook or ripen beforehand; prae
    before + coquere to cook. See 3d {Cook}, and cf. {Apricot}.]
    1. Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or
    prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees. [R.]
    --Sir T. Browne.

    2. Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age;
    exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too
    forward; -- used especially of mental forwardness; as, a
    precocious child; precocious talents.

    1. When Nagano offered a Mahler Ninth with the LSO a few years ago, however, it was a precocious triumph of musicianship, and plainly of respectful, assiduous attention to what the likes of Horenstein and Bruno Walter made of the score.
    2. It was a really imaginative experiment.' Anderson is at pains to point out that acquiring an appetite for museums was not precocious, nor even unusual, for a London child of his generation.
    3. It's become what you might call a technical problem.' Though intellectually precocious, Frank was emotionally immature and very dependent on their mother, Agnes.
    4. Eleven-year-old Larry Banister II is acknowledged to be the most precocious promoter in this old gold mining community now that his efforts in behalf of Kids' Day have begun to hit pay dirt.
    5. The precocious artist proved his mastery of fresco in the Ovetari chapel in the church of the Hermit Friars.
    6. For what else is the King of Navarre doing but acting like a precocious undergraduate of an Oxbridge college before the admission of women?
    7. "I used to drive all of my piano teachers crazy because I'd be playing Chopin or Beethoven, and I'd always think of what I thought was a nicer way of finishing a phrase," he says, recalling his precocious childhood.
    8. Senior executives tend to be in their 50s and early 60s with Lord Hanson (72) the most aged and Archie Norman of Asda (40) the most precocious.
    9. Coleman, who played the precocious Arnold Jackson on the hit TV show, has filed a separate lawsuit alleging his parents and former business manager mishandled his money and funneled away more than $1 million for themselves.
    10. "She was a wonderful, precocious bird," said Sandi Hoover, Audubon executive director.
    11. But children today are more precocious, she says.
    12. There is more than one precocious offspring in Royal Bank of Scotland's brood.
    13. Watson, the precocious one (he went to the university of Chicago at the age of 15), says Crick has the faster brain.
    14. But it takes an enormous feat of self delusion to sustain the notion of Baldwin as black hero through 400-odd pages. He was born in Harlem in 1924 and became one of Harlem's many precocious boy preachers, able to move crowds with his righteous fervour.
    15. The precocious pixie who plays Molly, Asia Vieira, just beams when she's around Ms. Keaton.
    16. A precocious only child, by the time he was 15 he had his first job - designing furniture for Windsor Castle.
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