詞彙精選:youth的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
n.
年輕;青春 [C]
例句:
Your youth and simplicity plead for you in this instance.
在這種情況下你的年輕和單純成爲有力的辯護。
例句:
Reckless youth make rueful age.
少壯不努力,老大徒傷悲。
青(少)年時代,青春時期 [C]
例句:
He mused over memories of his youth.
他重溫青年時期的往事。
例句:
Youth is the golden time in one's life.
青年時代是人一生中的黃金時代。
初期,早期 [C]
例句:
From early youth he had specialised in foreign affairs.
從青年時代初期起,他就專攻外交。
例句:
He was born in the youth of his nation.
他在建國初期出生。
男青年,小夥子 [C]
例句:
The lusty youth spotted that marriageable girl, but he didn't speak directly to her.
壯實的小夥子瞧上了那個未嫁的少女,但他一直不上前直接答話。
例句:
The youth patterned his life on Benjamin Franklin's.
這個年輕人使自己的生活仿效本傑明·富蘭克林的。
【總稱】(男女)青年們 [C]
例句:
She heard another educated youth reading from one of his letters.
她聽見知識青年們在念他寫來的信。
例句:
The fight was started by some youths who had been drinking.
這場架是一幫喝醉了的小青年惹起的.
二、詞義辨析:
youth,teenager,adolescent,juvenile
這些名詞均有“年輕人,青少年”之意。youth現在幾乎專指男青年,尤指10多歲到20多一點的男青年,但作爲集合名時間男女青年都可指。teenager主要指13歲到19歲之間的青少年,強調這個年齡段的人的本身特點。adolescent比teenager正式,側重年齡。juvenile指青少年,系法律上的常用詞。
三、相關短語:
youth hostel
青年招待所
bloom of youth
青春風華正茂
四、參考例句:
Youth is always too overscrupulous.
青年時代總是過於認真的。
Reckless youth make rueful age.
少壯不努力,老大徒傷悲。
The youth cares only for himself.
那個年輕人只關心自己。
He mused over memories of his youth.
他重溫青年時期的往事。
I spent my youth in the country.
我在鄉間度過了青少年時代。
She works for a youth club.
她在一家青年俱樂部工作。
The youth should respect for the elder.
年輕人應該尊重長輩。
Can I have a youth hostel list?
是否可提供給我一份青年旅館的目錄?
Youth is the time of physical growth.
青年時期是長身體的時期。
Youth glided past without our awareness.
青春在我們不知不覺中逝去。