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单词 precociousness
释义
precociouspre‧co‧cious /prɪˈkəʊʃəs $ -ˈkoʊ-/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprecocious
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin praecox ‘becoming ripe early’, from coquere ‘to cook, ripen’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The book's narrator is a precocious 12-year-old boy.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Harriet is played by Michelle Trachtenberg, a precocious child actress portraying a precocious child.
  • It is unclear when Patsy Ramsey first launched her precocious daughter on the circuit.
  • The egg needs to be extremely large because it contains the nourishment required to produce a most precocious chick.
  • There are even two precocious child skaters, who make you realise how long the process of togetherness takes to gell.
  • Werbach was a precocious environmentalist and a leadership prodigy.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a precocious child who walked and talked early
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· There are even two precocious child skaters, who make you realise how long the process of togetherness takes to gell.· In any case, I am cautious about pushing a precocious child on to first grade.· Harriet is played by Michelle Trachtenberg, a precocious child actress portraying a precocious child.· Scott Konrad had always been a precocious child, Deborah recalled.
a precocious child shows intelligence or skill at a very young age, or behaves in an adult way – sometimes used to show disapproval in British English:  a precocious child who walked and talked earlyprecociously adverbprecociousness (also precocity) /prɪˈkɒsəti $ -ˈkɑː-/ noun [uncountable]
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