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flower child

/flou-er chahyld/US // ˈflaʊ ər ˌtʃaɪld //

花童,花花公子,花季少年,花季少女

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural flow·er chil·dren.

    • : a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.

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Examples

  • In an irony, though, that the flower children could never imagine, growing legal pot has tangled Stein in the red tape he has spent his life avoiding.

  • Although it’s set four decades in the past and works best as an allegory for how baby-boomer flower children grew up to be hypercapitalist yuppies, Physical also feels like a sign of our transitioning times.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • He felt his body grow limp (like one of those high-speed films of a flower wilting).

  • In Sweden parents can use those days up until the child turns 12.

  • The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.

  • It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.

  • You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.

  • He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.

  • This is one of the most striking manifestations of the better side of child-nature and deserves a chapter to itself.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.