Premature

(adj.) uncommonly early or before the expected time; 'illness led to his premature death'; 'alcohol brought him to an untimely end' .

(adj.) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; 'a premature infant' .

编辑:马丁

• Any open reference to the question, on my part, would have been premature at this early stage of our reconciliation. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It would have been premature to interfere with her at such a time as this. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Don't you think it may be a little premature? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was premature disillusionment that caused the Russian collapse. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But it would be premature in this stage, and it's not the character of my mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And lookye further, Phil, says the trooper, staying his premature conclusions with a wave of his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Once his strong hand lay still, England fell away from this premature attempt to realize a righteous commonweal of free men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was danger, also, in that mode of turning the chambered breech, arising from premature firing. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Happily this change does not leave me stranded; it but hurries into premature execution designs long formed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It shows the sciences in their interrelations, and saves the student from narrowness and premature specialization. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• And yet it may be premature to abandon the case. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I have often felt that Mr. Edison got himself purposely into trouble by premature publications and otherwise, so that he would have a full incentive to get himself out of the trouble. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The money which I had reckoned upon never came to hand, and a premature examination of accounts exposed my deficit. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• This may be premature. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at Newhaven. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I think I was premature in promising. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He snatched at a premature popularity by outdoing his father's patriotic and aggressive attitudes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her features and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It would be premature to state that plainly. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If I join St. John, I abandon half myself: if I go to India, I go to premature death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He soon regretted the premature publication of his studies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But I--you won't think me premature if I mention it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He might have risen still higher, but for the premature death of the heroic Coeur-de-Lion, before the Castle of Chaluz, near Limoges. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It never did run out, however, but was brought to a premature end, as I proceed to relate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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