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infantile

/in-fuhn-tahyl, -til/US // ˈɪn fənˌtaɪl, -tɪl //UK // (ˈɪnfənˌtaɪl) //

幼稚,婴儿期,幼稚的,婴幼儿

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
    • : of or relating to infants or infancy: infantile diseases.
    • : Physical Geography. youthful.

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Examples

  • I think it’s partly because the audience for a lot of that stuff is kids – and the culture in general is a bit infantile in this era.

  • The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile.

  • The United States got an F — and soon 550,000 dead — because the ignorant or infantile among us, wanting what they wanted when they wanted it, defeated the nation’s adults.

  • The seeds of future nightmares may be planted early in life, during what’s known as the “infantile amnesia” period, which lasts from birth to about age three and a half, and is a time of life during which virtually no enduring memories are formed.

  • At one point, Valle offered an apology to anybody who had been “hurt, shocked or offended by my infantile actions.”

  • It was sweet and funny and self-deprecating, nothing like the infantile behavior she had just displayed.

  • It's how we project our own catastrophe of infantile adulthood.

  • He led her by the hand, and confided to her infantile spirit all his thoughts, his illusions, his day-dreams.

  • The Scherzo is neither good nor bad; the trio is so innocent that it would be almost too infantile for a Sniegourotchka.

  • He listened and heard soft breathing that stopped just short of being an infantile snore.

  • She was apparently about six years of age, and the picture of infantile innocence and loveliness.

  • In respect of one symptom or several, many individuals may remain throughout life in an infantile condition.

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