| 释义 |
in embryoAt a rudimentary stage with the potential for development: the nations of modern Europe can be discerned in embryo by the end of the first millennium...- The government has fiercely denied opposition claims that it has created an army in embryo, without parliament's consent.
- To Tocqueville, this was popular sovereignty in embryo.
- We may think we've missed it, but as Smith talks us through her ideas, which are presented with great fluency and wit, her thesis takes shape and, in embryo at least, is persuasive.
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