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youth

/yooth/US // yuθ //UK // (juːθ) //

青年,年轻人,青少年,青年人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural youths [yooths, yoothz], /yuθs, yuðz/, youth.

    • : the condition of being young.
    • : the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young.
    • : the time of being young; early life: His youth was spent on the farm.
    • : the period of life from puberty to the attainment of full growth; adolescence.
    • : the first or early period of anything: The business, even in its youth, showed great potential.
    • : young persons collectively.
    • : a young person, especially a young man or male adolescent.

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Examples

  • Happily, there are moments of humor, too, as Broome recalls things that occurred in his youth, or maybe just a few years ago.

  • The school’s fate has been in flux since the state and federal governments passed laws aiming to transition away from group and congregate facilities for foster youth.

  • We were planning to expand our housing capacity from 11 to 35 beds for homeless youth and were honored for the support of so many of our state legislators.

  • Still, by refusing to invest in youth at QB via the draft, Fontenot hasn’t done much to address the situation.

  • India’s ill-conceived vaccination programme could jeopardise the future of thousands of youth.

  • While excoriating the IRS, Huckabee brings his readers along on a flashback to his youth.

  • The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.

  • A new WPA would have helped create jobs and provided some training to underemployed or unemployed youth.

  • After raising a cool $2m last night, Will met the President today in DC while Kate visited a Harlem youth project.

  • According to a 2012 UNAIDS report, youth between the ages of 16 to 25 account for 40 percent of all new adult HIV infections.

  • She herself had worn them in her youth, and they were the proper bonnets for "growing girls."

  • Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.

  • Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.

  • Very trim and strong, and confident he looked, with the glow of youth in his cheeks, and the spark of happiness in his gray eyes.

  • He distinguished himself in early youth by the variety of studies which he accomplished.