| 词汇 | inchoate |
| 释义 | inchoate adjective literaryuk /ɪnˈkəʊ.eɪt/ us /ɪnˈkoʊ.eɪt/ only recently or partly formed, or not completely developed or clear: 才开始的;不完全的;未发展完善的 She had a child's inchoate awareness of language.她具有儿童对语言的初步意识。 Synonyms basic crude(SIMPLE) elementary rough(POOR QUALITY) rough and ready rude(SIMPLE)old use or literary rudimentaryformal simple(PLAIN) undeveloped unrefined unsophisticated Uncertainty amorphous be neither fish nor fowlidiom blurringly blurry circumstantial indeterminate indeterminately insecurely insecurity interrogatively murky shakiness shallowly slippery spec squishy wavery wifty wishy-washy you never knowidiom Examples of inchoateinchoate Feeling is an "inchoate quality" (155) of country songs, involving both verbal cleverness and a sense of embodied movement. This configuration of agency presumes that, at some point, ownership entailed the transformation of the inchoate into the cultivated. It can lead to distorted views of the ways in which the imperial state actually operated, in all its inchoate and fractured complexity. Few are interested in the open-ended, inchoate rural community. Perhaps, turning the argument around, selection favored those children who were capable of turning inchoate vocalizations into structured linguistic elements. Analyses of cohesion on committees, of inchoate party systems, or of weak multiparty systems are three examples where the impact will be greatest. But positive law is an inchoate or incomplete form of law as practical reasonableness. We permit active abandonment because until the last act, there is always a genuine chance that the inchoate criminal does not "really" mean it. In sum, except for the criminalization of "last-act" cases, inchoate criminality is largely preemptive, rather than a response to behavior that itself risks harming others. Parties institutionalized citizenship by organizing the electorate for the civic rituals of voting and by transmuting inchoate demands into law and policy. For instance, while children have rights, they are largely inchoate or exercised by adults on their behalf. Malaysian political culture remains inchoate and underdeveloped from a democratic standpoint and is still somewhat short of the values and spirit needed for democratic consolidation. Perhaps equal concern is a theory of justice in an inchoate form, a theory of justice that other more sophisticated theories incorporate and extend? Other kinds of coordination of actions, such as coordination by positive law, are incomplete or inchoate. Record an urban streetscape without motor traffic and most of what you take away is inchoate rumble. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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