Childhood
['tʃaɪldhʊd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence.
(noun.) the time of person's life when they are a child.
西里尔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
(n.) Children, taken collectively.
(n.) The commencement; the first period.
整理:昆廷
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Infancy, minority, pupilage, nonage.
錄入:索尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth—two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
手打:罗纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He brought the happiness of childhood into political discussion, and this opened up a new source of political power. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- My tears had risen, just as in childhood: I ordered them back to their source. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I should think, from her childhood, she must have lived in public stations; and in her youth might very likely have been a barmaid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He loved his daughter with more fondness now, perhaps, than ever he had done since the days of her childhood. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Earth, gray with age, shall hear the strain Which o’er her childhood rolled; For her the morning stars again Shall sing their song of old. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It was her father; and she, since childhood, had been the guide of his darkened steps. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I cannot call to mind where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained glass window in a church. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Both of these conditions are at their height in childhood and youth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In this state of second childhood, it had an air of being in its own way garrulous about its early life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If you would say the old good words, it would make me feel something of the pious simplicity of my childhood. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I have passed out of childhood into old age. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
校對:卡特里娜