| 单词 | emergent |
| 释义 | emergent (once / 272 pages) adj If you have an emergent talent for science, your teacher might bump you up to an advanced science class. Emergent is an adjective that describes something that is emerging, or suddenly coming into existence. Emergent means “coming into being.” It's often used in phrases like “emergent technologies.” These are brand-new technologies that we can expect to be widely used in the near future. The Internet, for example, was an emergent technology in the early 1990s. Emergent sometimes implies that what is coming into being is surprising and demands a response. An “emergent disease,” for instance, would send scientists scrambling to find a cure. In this sense emergent is related to emergency. WORD FAMILYemergent: emergency+/emerge: emerged, emergence, emergent, emerges, emerging, emersion, re-emerge/emergence: emergences/emergency: emergencies/emersion: emersions/re-emerge: re-emerged, re-emerging USAGE EXAMPLESToday there is no emergent virus running amok. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) City Century hopes to attract what Morkun called “the emergent creative class” in such fields as entertainment, media, gaming, fashion and technology. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) It should be headed by women, young people and people of color, emergent from formations like the Movement for Black Lives and Occupy. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) 1adj coming into existence an emergent republic Syn emerging nascent being born or beginning 2adj occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action emergent repair of an aorta Syn sudden happening without warning or in a short space of time |
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