late 14c., "rising from what surrounds it, coming into view," from Latin emergentem (nominative emergens), present participle of emergere "to rise out or up" (see emerge).
雙語例句
1. Emergent democracies created markets that were ripe for exploitation.
新興的民主國家創(chuàng)造了可供開拓的成熟市場.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. We could say that computer viruses are the first examples of emergent artificial life.