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adolescence

/ad-l-es-uhns/US // ˌæd lˈɛs əns //UK // (ˌædəˈlɛsəns) //

青春期,青少年时期,青少年时代,青少年

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development, extending mainly over the teen years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached; youth.
    • : the process or state of growing to maturity.
    • : a period or stage of development, as of a society, preceding maturity.

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Examples

  • Friends — who take on paramount importance during adolescence — are largely out of reach, accessible mostly by social media, which brings its own mix of satisfying and toxic elements.

  • So many of us have been where you are now, especially in an unimaginably fractured and stressful year, one that has made everything that’s already difficult about adolescence that much harder.

  • Violet, now on the cusp of adolescence, is framed in one of the windows, locking eyes with Blythe, the mother whose breakdown and banishment she orchestrated.

  • Compared to other marketing disciplines such as print and broadcast, we’re in our adolescence at best, which is actually an exciting place to be.

  • Her team’s new research now suggests what the ideal mix of activities and rest is during adolescence to build strong bones for your adult years.

  • Kids approaching adolescence get a brief discussion about confidentiality.

  • And that was the soul, very active in adolescence—like everything else.

  • It goes back with me not to childhood so much as to late adolescence.

  • The moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence.

  • Across the globe, millions of boys and girls are betrothed so young they spend the majority of their adolescence already married.

  • But it seems to me that with adolescence comes the right to knowledge and the right of judgment.

  • Dim, forgotten perils of adolescence come to my mind, as a cloud obscures the summer sun.

  • Unfortunately, the characteristics of the spoiled child do not vanish with childhood or even with adolescence.

  • The generation which numbered Bryan Dalyrimple drifted out of adolescence to a mighty fan-fare of trumpets.

  • Usually in early adolescence it bursts its casings and shoots into consciousness, powerfully affecting the emotions and the will.