prematurely

英 [ˌprɛməˈtjʊəli]

美 [ˌpriməˈtʃʊrli]

adv.  早熟地

BNC.11200 / COCA.11682

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 过早的；太早的；提前的
  Something that isprematurehappens earlier than usual or earlier than people expect.
  1. Accidents are still the number one cause of premature death for Americans...
     交通事故仍然是造成美国人过早死亡的头号因素。
  2. His career was brought to a premature end by a succession of knee injuries.
     因为膝盖接二连三地受伤，他的职业生涯提前结束了。
  3. ...a twenty-four-year-old man who suffered from premature baldness.
     过早脱发的24岁男子
• ADJ-GRADED 不成熟的；过早的；草率的
  You can say that something isprematurewhen it happens too early and is therefore inappropriate.
  1. It now seems their optimism was premature...
     现在看来他们高兴得太早了。
  2. I think it's premature for restaurants to come out with that advice.
     我认为餐馆提出那样的建议太草率了。
• ADJ-GRADED 早产的
  Aprematurebaby is one that was born before the date when it was expected to be born.
  1. Even very young premature babies respond to their mother's presence...
     即使是很小的早产儿也会对母亲的出现做出反应。
  2. When my daughter Emma was born she was two and a half months premature.
     我女儿埃玛出生时提前了两个半月。

英英释义

adv

• too soon
  1. I spoke prematurely
  Synonym:untimely
• (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation
  1. the child was born prematurely

双语例句

• Without proper purification, physical or mental disorders can result from raising our creative forces prematurely.
  不进行适当的净化，过早地提升我们的创造力会导致生理的或心理的紊乱。
• And as the previous example shows, you can terminate a process prematurely with kill.
  正如先前的示例所示，您可以用kill提前终止某个进程。
• It allows founders and key employees to make money without having to sell the company or go public prematurely.
  这使得公司创始人和重要员工不需要通过转售公司也不必在尚未成熟的条件下匆忙上市来赚钱。
• That causes your test to terminate prematurely, too, of course.
  当然，那也将导致你的测试过早地终止。
• The natal care unit at the University of Ontario is testing such a system to monitor babies born prematurely.
  安大略大学的婴儿监护室正在测试这样的一套系统，以对早产儿进行监控。
• His hair was prematurely white, but his busy eyebrows were still jet-black.
  他的头发已经白了，不过两道浓眉还是乌黑乌黑的。
• His frame bowed prematurely.
  他的背过早地弯了。
• Fuses are notoriously unreliable, and grenadiers can die as their own bombs explode prematurely.
  这种臭名昭著的导火线极不可靠，提早爆炸很可能令掷弹兵死在自己的炸弹手里。
• Two women, both fighting the toll of time, die prematurely.
  两个女人，都在对抗岁月的流逝，却都提前死亡了。
• Just to make sure those apples don't become sauce prematurely.
  我只是不想让你的苹果过早地变成苹果酱。