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juvenility

/joo-vuh-nil-i-tee/US // ˌdʒu vəˈnɪl ɪ ti //UK // (ˌdʒuːvɪˈnɪlɪtɪ) //

少年时代,青少年,青少年时期,少年时期

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ju·ve·nil·i·ties.

    • : juvenile state, character, or manner.
    • : juvenilities, youthful qualities or acts.
    • : an instance of being juvenile.

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Examples

  • Similar views and principles alone can correct a third error of age, namely, the aim to prolong juvenility to an unnatural period.

  • It takes a jaunty juvenility of spirit to wear a sailor suit properly, and she was not feeling that way these days.

  • "Though probably you are hardly of an age to see it yet," says Dean, and he smiles at the juvenility of ambition.

  • Edgar was enthusiastically carolling 15 a ditty which was then popular among Bayport juvenility.

  • My father once took me—but I can not say at what period of my juvenility—into both houses of Parliament.

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