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Nascent means coming into existence or just starting to develop — a thing that is being born, not finished yet. You use it of movements, industries, ideas, talents, even a feeling: a nascent film industry, nascent hope.
Nascent萌芽中的 means coming into existence or just starting to develop意思是剛開始出現或發展, a thing that is being born, not finished yet一個正在誕生、還沒完成的東西。You use it of你可以用它形容 movements, industries, ideas, talents, even a feeling運動、產業、想法、才能，甚至一種情緒：a nascent film industry剛起步的電影產業, nascent hope剛萌生的希望。
It is a formal, slightly literary word; in everyday talk people say new, young, or just starting.
It is a formal, slightly literary word它是個正式、帶點文學味的字；in everyday talk在日常對話裡, people say new, young, or just starting人們會說new、young，或just starting。
It does not mean the thing is small forever — only that it is in its early stage.
It does not mean the thing is small forever它不代表這個東西永遠都很小——only that it is in its early stage只是說它正處於早期階段。
Scientists sometimes use it of a substance that has only just been formed and is still very reactive; that is the same “just born” idea in a lab coat.
Scientists sometimes use it科學家有時候會用它 of a substance that has only just been formed and is still very reactive形容一種剛剛形成、還非常活躍的物質；that is the same "just born" idea in a lab coat這其實就是穿上實驗袍版本的「剛誕生」概念。
Do not mix it up with ancient (very old) just because the shapes look a little similar.
Do not mix it up with ancient (very old)不要把它跟ancient（非常古老）搞混 just because the shapes look a little similar只因為兩個字的外形有點像。
組成Borrowed from Latin nāscēns, nāscentis, the present participle of nāscor (“to be born”). Doublet of naissant.
同家族的字
- nativesame Latin root of being born
- nationsame Latin root: a people thought of as “born” together
- naturesame Latin root: how things are born and grow
- natalsame Latin root, used of birth
- Renaissancere- plus the same “be born” root: a rebirth
- naissanta doublet: the same Latin participle by a different path
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nascentadj/ˈneɪ.sənt/
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Emerging; just coming into existence.
- In the firſt, the Pope was but Antichriſt naſcent ; In the ſecond, Antichriſt creſcent ; In the third, Antichriſt regnant ; but in this fourth, he is made Lord of the Catholike faith, and Antichriſt triumphant[…]
- The point of this chapter’s unflattering précis of nascent American medicine is not to castigate it for its primitivism, but to put blacks’ historical aversion to medical care into context, for most antebellum blacks were subjected to southern medicine.
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Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
- For, as we have ſhewn, the original Uſe of it was to ſupport naſcent Hero-Worſhip.
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOf the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
- There are no reasons for supposing that any of the residual atmospheric oxygen is immediately combined with fixed or nascent hydrogen, or hydrocarbonate, in the venous blood at 98°, by slow combustion, and consequently none for supposing that water is immediately formed in respiration.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesNaissant.
- […] charges of blazonry, bends sinister and bends dexter, lions couchant, lions nascent, and[…]
- Marks of the makers : the initials of the maker and the arms of the town : a lion nascent with three flames.
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obsoletemathematicssciencesDescribing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
- Fluxions are very nearly as the Augments of the Fluents, generated in equal, but infinitely ſmall parts of Time ; and to ſpeak exactly, are in the Prime Ratio of the naſcent Augments : but they may be expounded by any Lines that are proportional to ’em.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。