1 N-UNCOUNT [usually poss NOUN] 青年时期;青少年时代 Someone's
youth is the period of their life during which they are a child, before they are a fully mature adult.
青年时期;青少年时代 2 N-UNCOUNT 青春;朝气;年轻 Youth is the quality or state of being young.
青春;朝气;年轻 SYN youthfulness, youngness, freshness
3 N-COUNT (新闻用语,尤指惹麻烦的)青年,小伙子 Journalists often refer to young men as
youths, especially when they are reporting that the young men have caused trouble.
(新闻用语,尤指惹麻烦的)青年,小伙子 4 N-PLURAL [usually with poss] (统称)青年,年轻人 The youth are young people considered as a group.
(统称)青年,年轻人 SYN young people, the young, the younger generation, teenagers
Quotations
Youth's a stuff will not endure William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect Samuel Johnson Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself anything, is forgiven nothing George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists Whom the gods love dies young Menander Mouostichoi The whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school William Shakespeare As You Like It Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven William Wordsworth The Prelude Youth is a disease that must be borne with patiently! Time, indeed, will cure it R.H. Benson I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own Margaret Atwood Hair Jewelry Hope I die before I get old Pete Townshend My Generation The atrocious crime of being a young man... I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Word Partnership | Use youth with: |
N. | youth centre, youth culture, youth groups, youth organizations, youth programmes, youth services 4 |
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