inchoate「初期的;不成熟的」

inchoate「初期的;不成熟的」

Word of the Day : September 22, 2021

inchoate

初期的;不成熟的

adjective in-KOH-ut

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What It Means

Inchoate means “imperfectly formed or formulated。”

Inchoate意思是不完美的形態或不完整的設定。

Examples

In the podcast, the author described the process by which she took a series of inchoate vignettes and shaped them into her best-selling novel。

In the podcast,作者描述了她在拍攝初期的一系列小插曲並將它們塑造成她的暢銷小說的過程。

“Petrifying sights and sounds haunt her nights and inchoate shadows hover around her。” — Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, 19 Aug。 2021

“可怕的景象和可怕的聲音縈繞在她的晚上,不清晰的影像在她周圍盤旋。”

Did You Know?

Inchoate comes from inchoare, which means “to start work on” in Latin but translates literally as “to hitch up” (inchoare combines the prefix in- with the Latin noun cohum, which refers to the strap that secures a plow beam to a draft animal‘s yoke)。 The concept of this initial step toward the larger task of plowing a field explains how inchoate came to describe something (as a plan or idea) in its early, not fully formed, stages of development。

Inchoate 來自 inchoare,在拉丁語中的意思是“to start work on『開始工作』”,但字面意思是“to hitch up『

(把馬等)拴在(車上)

』”(inchoare 將字首 in- 與拉丁語名詞 cohum 結合在一起,後者指的是將犁轅固定到動物軛把上的帶子)。這個邁向耕地這一更大任務第一步的概念,解釋了inchoate是如何來描述發展初期、未完成階段的事物(作為計劃或想法)。

Quiz

Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of inchoate: n _ _ c _ nt。