adolescent

adj. 青春期的；未成熟的

n. 青少年

n.

少年，少女；

adj.

青春期的；青少年的；未成熟的；

变形

复数：adolescents

双语释义

青春期的,青少年的 (of) a boy or girl in the period between being a child and being an adult

英英释义

adolescent[ ,ædəu'lesnt ]

n.a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

同义词：striplingteenagerteen

adj.

relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent

"adolescent problems"

being of the age 13 through 19

同义词：teenteenageteenaged

displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

"adolescent insecurity"

同义词：jejunejuvenilepuerile

in the state of development between puberty and maturity

"adolescent boys and girls"

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

adolescent attitude青春期的心态

adolescent behaviour孩子气的举动

adolescent boys青春期的男孩

adolescent crisis青春期易出现的问题

adolescent instability青春期的不稳定性

adolescent life青春期的生活

the adolescent stage of development青春发育阶段

词组短语

adolescent health青少年健康

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“年轻人，青少年”的意思，其区别是：

adolescent比teenager正式，侧重年龄。

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。

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。

juvenile指青少年，系法律上的常用词。

这组词都有“年轻的，年幼的”的意思，其区别是：

adolescent指13至16岁左右处于青春期的人，尚不成熟。

youthful褒义或贬义均可用。指具有青年人的外貌或年轻人应具有的品格。

juvenile较正式用词，一般12岁以下的少年，着重其生理和智力上的不成熟。

young强调年龄小，处于生长的前期。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

It is not unusual for grown adults to act in an adolescent way.
成人表现出青春期的样子很正常。

She says that risk-taking is normal adolescent behaviour.
她说冒险是青春期的正常表现。

I still remember my adolescent life.
我仍然记得我青少年时期的生活。

The adolescent period is one's best time.
青少年时期是一个人最美好的一段时光。

用作名词(n.)

Overgrowth is common in adolescents.
青少年成长过快是普遍现象。

Many adolescents suffer from/have acne.
很多青少年患有痤疮[长粉刺]。

权威例句

adolescent

adolescent: [15] The original notion lying behind both adolescent and adult is of ‘nourishment’. The Latin verb alere meant ‘nourish’ (alimentary and alimony come from it, and it is related to old). A derivative of this, denoting the beginning of an action, was alēscere ‘be nourished’, hence ‘grow’. The addition of the prefix ad- produced adolēscere.Its present participial stem, adolēscent- ‘growing’, passed into English as the noun adolescent ‘a youth’ (the adjective appears not to have occurred before the end of the 18th century). Its past participle, adultus ‘grown’, was adopted into English as adult in the 16th century.=> adult, alimentary, alimony, coalesce, coalition, proletarian, prolific

adolescent (n.)

mid-15c., "youth, young man," from Middle French adolescent (15c.) or directly from Latin adolescentem (nominative adolescens) "growing, near maturity, youthful," present participle of adolescere "grow up, come to maturity, ripen," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + alescere "be nourished," hence, "increase, grow up," inchoative of alere "to nourish" (see old). Adolesce was a back-formed verb used early 20c. by H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, Louis MacNeice, but it seems not to have taken.

adolescent (adj.)

1785, from Latin adolescentem (nominative adolescens) "growing, near maturity, youthful," present participle of adolescere "grow up, come to maturity, ripen" (see adolescent (n.)).

1. a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation

【例句2】If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was

-- 来源 -- PETS培训专用教材 第4级 - 第四章 阅读理解应试捷径 二 解题思路与高分突破 3. 翻译的技巧 （2）

2. an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy.

笨拙的没礼貌的青少年。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

3. They knew, none better, the havoc caused by a good-looking young man to the hearts of adolescent girls.

她们最清楚不过，漂亮的年轻人会在青春期的女孩们心中造成多么大的混乱。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. adolescent boys, crises, attitudes

青春期的男子、 易出现的问题、 心态.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

5. Man is still only adolescent.

人类还只是处于青少年时期。

-- 来源 -- 英汉非文学 - 历史 - lishi-shijiezhengzhiyushehuidechongjian

6. Monroe complains too about her early adolescent experiences of sexual harassment.

梦露对自己少女时期经历的性骚扰耿耿于怀。

-- 来源 -- art - 汉英

7. Her remarks seemed a bit adolescent.

她的这番话似乎有点幼稚。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. It was not money that lured the adolescent husbandman to the cities, but the gay life.

把那个青年农民引诱到城市的东西不是金钱，而是那里的欢乐生活。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. A gawky adolescent boy.

笨手笨脚的小伙子长得高大笨拙的男孩

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

10. The education departments at various levels shall carry out health education in prevention and control of AIDS among adolescent students, and incorporate the knowledge of prevention and control of AIDS into the education and teaching plans of general secondary schools, secondary vocational schools and institutions of higher learning.

各级教育部门应当在青少年学生中开展艾滋病防治知识的健康教育，将艾滋病防治知识纳入普通中学、中等职业学校和高等学校教育教学计划。

-- 来源 -- 一叶知秋