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youth-and-old-age

/yooth-uhn-ohld-eyj, -uhnd/US // ˈyuθ ənˌoʊldˈeɪdʒ, -ənd //

青年和老年,青年与老年,青年和老年人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stiff-growing, erect composite plant, Zinnia elegans, of Mexico, having large, solitary flowers with yellow-to-purple disks and usually red rays.

Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

  • In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

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

  • Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

  • 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.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.