词汇精选:youth的用法和辨析
一、详细释义:
n.
年轻;青春 [C]
例句:
Your youth and simplicity plead for you in this instance.
在这种情况下你的年轻和单纯成为有力的辩护。
例句:
Reckless youth make rueful age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。
青(少)年时代,青春时期 [C]
例句:
He mused over memories of his youth.
他重温青年时期的往事。
例句:
Youth is the golden time in one's life.
青年时代是人一生中的黄金时代。
初期,早期 [C]
例句:
From early youth he had specialised in foreign affairs.
从青年时代初期起,他就专攻外交。
例句:
He was born in the youth of his nation.
他在建国初期出生。
男青年,小伙子 [C]
例句:
The lusty youth spotted that marriageable girl, but he didn't speak directly to her.
壮实的小伙子瞧上了那个未嫁的少女,但他一直不上前直接答话。
例句:
The youth patterned his life on Benjamin Franklin's.
这个年轻人使自己的生活仿效本杰明·富兰克林的。
【总称】(男女)青年们 [C]
例句:
She heard another educated youth reading from one of his letters.
她听见知识青年们在念他写来的信。
例句:
The fight was started by some youths who had been drinking.
这场架是一帮喝醉了的小青年惹起的.
二、词义辨析:
youth,teenager,adolescent,juvenile
这些名词均有“年轻人,青少年”之意。youth现在几乎专指男青年,尤指10多岁到20多一点的男青年,但作为集合名时间男女青年都可指。teenager主要指13岁到19岁之间的青少年,强调这个年龄段的人的本身特点。adolescent比teenager正式,侧重年龄。juvenile指青少年,系法律上的常用词。
三、相关短语:
youth hostel
青年招待所
bloom of youth
青春风华正茂
四、参考例句:
Youth is always too overscrupulous.
青年时代总是过于认真的。
Reckless youth make rueful age.
少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。
The youth cares only for himself.
那个年轻人只关心自己。
He mused over memories of his youth.
他重温青年时期的往事。
I spent my youth in the country.
我在乡间度过了青少年时代。
She works for a youth club.
她在一家青年俱乐部工作。
The youth should respect for the elder.
年轻人应该尊重长辈。
Can I have a youth hostel list?
是否可提供给我一份青年旅馆的目录?
Youth is the time of physical growth.
青年时期是长身体的时期。
Youth glided past without our awareness.
青春在我们不知不觉中逝去。