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girlhood

/gurl-hood/US // ˈgɜrl hʊd //UK // (ˈɡɜːlˌhʊd) //

女儿时代,女童时代,女童时期,女孩

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or time of being a girl.
    • : girls collectively: the nation's girlhood.

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Examples

  • Throughout, as she explores girlhood, freedom, sex and more, Allen shines a light on the spaces that connect and divide us, coalescing into an electric portrait of joy and pain.

  • The Texas filmmaker begins simply by explaining her girlhood obsession with the film, but soon hops into the story to partner with a shirtless Patrick Swayze.

  • She is a genius at writing about both the anxious space between girlhood and womanhood and the charged energy of youth.

  • It should have been a warm reunion, filled with talks of girlhood and current undertakings.

  • She had trained since girlhood to be a professional and once performed at Carnegie Hall with the company led by modern dance icon Martha Graham.

  • The tough African-French girls living in the projects in Girlhood have been abused and pushed out of the system.

  • The original French title, Bande de Filles (girl gang) was translated to Girlhood in order to appeal more to American audiences.

  • She is the author of Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (Ticknor Fields, 1989).

  • Frieda spent her girlhood in the embrace of her extended family, living a few blocks from both sets of grandparents.

  • I do love that photo: I just think it captures girlhood perfectly.

  • He had seen Mildred creep from babyhood into childhood, and bud from girlhood to womanhood.

  • Every detail of the accident is repeated again and again, with many incidents of Amy's girlhood.

  • Daphne's "simplicity," the pose of her girlhood, was in fact breaking down in all directions.

  • He almost shrank from her, though she stood there as inviting and innocent a specimen of girlhood as the eye could wish to see.

  • The one great unhappiness in Queen Wilhelmina's girlhood was that she wanted children and was deprived of having them.