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boyhood

/boi-hood/US // ˈbɔɪ hʊd //UK // (ˈbɔɪhʊd) //

童年,男孩时代,童年时代,童年生活

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or period of being a boy: Boyhood is a happy time of life.
    • : boys collectively: the boyhood of America.

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Examples

  • Ozick depicts these Old Boys-turned-oldsters as having changed little over the decades from their callow, snobbish boyhood selves.

  • We read of boyhood pranks, budding romance, friendships fortified through shared adventure, as well as the horrors of Auschwitz.

  • He had been ready for the 2019 NBA Draft and brought his family and his boyhood coach, Nelson Ossé, from his hometown of Montreal to New York City for the festivities.

  • It seems like you had to make the Before trilogy first in order to achieve something like Boyhood.

  • In some ways, a lot of the stuff we were doing in the Before trilogy is done better in Boyhood.

  • People compliment me on Boyhood sometimes, and I think, “Well, it better have been good!”

  • We wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight while we were working on Boyhood, and all those films are all about time.

  • Innovation is a poor substitute for insight, at least where boyhood is concerned.

  • Of his private life during manhood we know very little, of his boyhood nothing.

  • He seemed to pass under the mastery of a great mood that was a composite reproduction of all the moods of his forgotten boyhood.

  • Perhaps he is a little conscious of his charm; if so, it is hardly his fault, for hero-worship has been his lot from boyhood.

  • He had begun life as an officer in the French household troops in absolute boyhood.

  • He saw them dark and beautiful, tender as his mother's, true and faithful, as in his boyhood's dream of years ago.