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单词 precocious
释义
precocious
adjective
uk
/prɪˈkəʊ.ʃəs/us
/prəˈkoʊ.ʃəs/
(especiallyofchildren)showingmentaldevelopmentorachievementmuchearlierthanusual:
（尤指儿童）智力超常的，早熟的
A precociouschild, she went touniversityat theageof 15.她智力超常，15岁就上了大学。
Sherecordedher first CD at the precociousageof twelve.她在12岁这么小的年纪就录制了自己的第一张激光唱片。
disapproving
A precociouschildbehavesas if they are mucholderthan they are:
少年老成的
a precocious littlebrat很老练的小家伙
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(Definition ofprecociousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

precocious| American Dictionary

precocious
adjective
us
/prɪˈkoʊ·ʃəs/
showingunusuallyearlymentaldevelopmentorachievement:
Lucy was averballyprecociouschild.
(Definition ofprecociousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprecocious

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They warn that youth employment is par t of a syndrome of "precociousdevelopment," precipitating a hastened transition to adulthood.
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The opera was received indulgendy as the astonishing product of aprecocioustalent, but, after the novelty had worn off, its demise was swift.
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The above data suggest that common mechanisms underpin attachment organization in caregiver and infant, and theprecociousemergence of mentalizing in the child.
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However, we lack any overall vocabulary estimate for the child, one of the mostprecociousof 25 subjects.
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In both cases, after their firstprecociousdisplays of talent, their families and communities sought to put them to work in local musical life.
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Compared to older children who had equally large lexicons, theprecociouschildren demonstrated comparable grammatical composition of the lexicon.
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We predicted that two-year-olds who are reported by parents to be lexicallyprecociouswill demonstrate more consistent fast mapping than their typical age-mates.
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Edwards (1986) has shown that one solution that preventsprecociousgermination during prechilling is to partially redry seeds during pretreatment.
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Precociousloss of cortical granules during mouse oocytes meiotic maturation and correlation with an egg-induced modification of the zona pellucida.
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Meiosis-activating sterol protects oocytes fromprecociouschromosome segregation.
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Precociousreaders, in turn, are distinguished from their nonreading peers by their superior phoneme and onset - rime awareness.
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The threshold for microvascular disease is clinically relevant, as theprecociousdevelopment of microangiopathy is the most remarkable feature of diabetes.
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A possible explanation is that the molgulid ascidians may have undergoneprecociouschanges in egg organisation as a preadaptation to direct development.
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Though in this study ' earlier ' and ' later ' were crudely defined, the patterns in the data do suggest that lexicallyprecociouschildren may gain early entrance into grammar.
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One purpose of the present investigation, therefore, was to examine phonological patterns of several groups of children representing a range from average toprecociouslexical development.
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