| 单词 | spontaneous |
| 释义 | spontaneous (once / 532 pages) adj Something spontaneous happens when you're least expecting it. Spontaneous things are natural or instinctive, and they happen without warning. If you plan to go to a movie and then you go, that's not a spontaneous thing. Ditching the movie at the last minute to go to the park? That's spontaneous. Spontaneous things happen all of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, without being planned. Spontaneous can also refer to things that happen without outside influence. Your parents will be happy if you do your chores spontaneously instead of waiting till they nag you. WORD FAMILYspontaneous: spontaneity, spontaneously, spontaneousness+/spontaneity: spontaneities USAGE EXAMPLESOf course, much of the thrill of shopping involves spontaneous discoveries. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) It started as a spontaneous and very real outpouring of shock and grief over the killing. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) Their latest album, Existentialism, is a collection of new songs recorded live in pubs to get that same rowdy, spontaneous, participatory ambience. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj said or done without having been planned or written in advance Syn ad-lib, unwritten unscripted not furnished with or using a script 2adj happening or arising without apparent external cause spontaneous laughter spontaneous combustion a spontaneous abortion Syn|Ant self-generated impulsive, unprompted proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus intuitivespontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency instinctive, naturalunthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct induced brought about or caused; not spontaneous elicited, evokedcalled forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation iatrogenicinduced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment) |
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