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).
权威例句
1. Emergent democracies created markets that were ripe for exploitation.
新兴的民主国家创造了可供开拓的成熟市场.
2. We could say that computer viruses are the first examples of emergent artificial life.