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childhood

/chahyld-hood/US // ˈtʃaɪld hʊd //UK // (ˈtʃaɪldhʊd) //

童年,童年时代,童年时期,童年时

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or period of being a child.
    • : the early stage in the existence of something: the childhood of the human race.

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Examples

  • Children play an active part in shaping their social worlds, likely explaining in large part why these particular childhood temperaments were so closely aligned with later personality, the authors suggest.

  • The reasons are when girls stay home they often become victim to childhood marriages.

  • Despite haunting memories of a childhood visit to the boardwalk, Adelaide reluctantly takes her family on a Santa Cruz beach vacation.

  • In 2018, competitor Lynn Munro brought oatmeal she milled herself and cooked it with water she harvested from the loch at her childhood home.

  • Working with child psychologists and childhood development researchers, he wrote the book Design for Play in 1969.

  • My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

  • But that was probably the least unique thing about her childhood.

  • And the actor says his childhood experience plays a critical role in his performance.

  • My parents are building a mausoleum for themselves in my childhood home.

  • Colfer's artistic callings share a common thread: they are deeply personal and rooted in a challenging childhood.

  • It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

  • He sympathized with that movement which, during his childhood, culminated in the Cavite Conspiracy (vide p. 106).

  • The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.

  • When I am an old maid I am going to mount the platform and preach the training of the voice in childhood.

  • Except, therefore, for an interval of about three years my childhood and youth were spent at Derby.