Inchoate

(a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.

(v. t.) To begin.

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• Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She looked full into his face, and her dark, inchoate eyes had now a furtive look, and a look of a knowledge of evil, dark and indomitable. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The more the educator knows of music the more he can perceive the possibilities of the inchoate musical impulses of a child. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• All the time she kept her dark, inchoate eyes full upon him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was watching him all the time with her dark, dilated, inchoate eyes. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Hermione seemed to be bearing down on her, awful and inchoate, making some appeal. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The sensation of her inchoate suffering roused the old sharp flame in him, a mordant pity, a passion almost of cruelty. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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