youth

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n. 年轻, 青年时代, 青年们, 青春 [法] 青年, 青年时期, 青春时期

发音

UK /juːθ/
US /juθ/
UK /jʉwθ/
其它 /jʉwθ/
AU /jʉːθ/
NZ /jʉːθ/
其它 /jʉθ/
SCOT /jʉθ/
IN /jut̪ʰ/
IN /jʊt̪ʰ/
IN /jɐt̪ʰ/

词形变化

youths 复数 youths

别名

yoot youff yout yout' y yought youthe

教材释义与例句

名词

青年；青春；年轻；青少年时期

the period of time when someone is young, especially the period when someone is a teenager

a gang of youths

一伙少年

释义与例句

n. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The quality or state of being young.

    青春

    不可数 可数

    Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.

    Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.

  2. 2.

    Young persons, collectively.

    青年

    不可数 可数
  3. 3.

    The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

    芳华

    青年时期

    青春

    华年

    英年

    不可数 可数

    Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.

    I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.

  4. 4.

    A young person.

    青年人

    年轻人

    后生仔

    可数 不可数

    There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.

  5. 5.

    A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.

    青年

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

young early days juvenility spring chicken younker youthfulness

上位词 10

period juvenile maturity age group cohort matureness period of time time of life time period youngness

下位词 8

slip blade puppy pupil pup schoolchild hobbledehoy rejuvenescence

部分词 3

bloom adolescence salad days

相关短语

youth hostel 青年招待所 youth hostels youth club 青年俱乐部 youth worker 青年工作者 youth is wasted on the young youth work 青年工作 youth detention centre 少年管教所 youth detention center youth crime youth center youth centers youth centre youth centres youth detention centres youth workers

词源

From Middle English youthe, youghte, ȝouþe, from Old English ġeoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from Proto-West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþō, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.

来源：wiktionary