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teens

/teenz/US // tinz //UK // (tiːnz) //

青少年,十几岁的孩子,十几岁的人,十几岁

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n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : the numbers 13 through 19, especially in a progression, as the 13th through the 19th years of a lifetime or of a given or implied century.

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Examples

  • An 18-year-old Swedish rapper/Internet meme has inspired legions of impressionable teens to get based in bucket hats.

  • What is the suicide rate of Christian teens relative to transgender ones?

  • Witnesses said the girls were in their late teens and had been accompanied by a man who left soon after the blast.

  • As Pro Publica recently noted, blacks age 15 to 19 have a 21 times greater chance of being killed by the police than white teens.

  • Brute is the story of Mac and Jesse, two disenfranchised teens who turn to robbing houses as a form of recreation and quick cash.

  • But she was half a dozen years older than de Brus, who was still in his teens and was never distinguished for enterprise.

  • There was a Miss Mayblunt, no longer in her teens, who looked at the world through lorgnettes and with the keenest interest.

  • Moreover, let it be remembered she was at this time not a girl in her teens, but a woman of nearly forty-four.

  • The Fairy Prince was nearing home at last, and a tall, shy maid in her teens was glad that he was on the way.

  • Then Betsy would redden and toss her head, for, like most girls in their early teens, she wished to be thought older than she was.