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callow

/kal-oh/US // ˈkæl oʊ //UK // (ˈkæləʊ) //

呼叫,胼手胝足,召唤,胼胝

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
    • : featherless; unfledged.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a recently hatched worker ant.

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Examples

  • That was what I sought when, as a callow and hormonal high school student, I first discovered Lawrence.

  • Anyone going through Prozac Nation can certainly find plenty of callow moments when Wurtzel does whine.

  • But now that veneer is gone, and what remains is a callow man-child at odds with himself.

  • This is clearly not a boast; it seems, rather, a shamed admission of petty, callow cruelty.

  • The last thing we should do is help the callow—and dangerous—Kim continue his rule.

  • In this callow atmosphere, Brooke Astor would never be an icon, but she is remembered with nostalgia.

  • There lay the callow brood marked out by Nature and man, for her ministrations.

  • Next morning early they sent in their 'callow' verses to the great man, and followed shortly themselves.

  • When he was haled into court, despite his callow years, he came with insolent confidence, as one above the law.

  • "I wonder the rebels had the courage to pursue you," said a very callow youth named Graves.

  • As I looked at the two callow things in the grass, a dismay and weak helplessness quite overcame me.