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单词 adolescent
释义
adolescent
noun[C]
uk
/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/us
/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/
C2
ayoungpersonwho isdevelopinginto anadult
青少年
Compare
teenager
teennoun
Examples
  • Helookeduncomfortable, like aself-consciousadolescent who's gone to thewrongparty.
  • I'mlookingafter six adolescents for aweek.
  • She doesn'tunderstandtheemotionalproblemsof adolescents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Young people
  • adolescence
  • boyhood
  • delinquent
  • emo
  • girlhood
  • grow
  • grow up
  • mall rat
  • minor
  • ned
  • post-adolescent
  • punk
  • shaver
  • skinhead
  • teens
  • tween
  • tweenager
  • wild child
  • yoof
  • young blood
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adolescent
adjective
uk
/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/us
/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/
being orrelatingto an adolescent:
青春期的；青少年的
an adolescentboy青春期的男孩
adolescentconcerns/traumas/problems青春期孩子关心的问题／青春期精神创伤／青春期问题
used todescribeanadultor an adult'sbehaviourthat issillyand like a child's:
（成年人或其行为）孩子气的，幼稚的
adolescenthumour/behaviour孩子气的幽默／幼稚的举止
More examples
  • Heeventuallyoutgrewhis adolescentinterestinwarandguns.
  • Thecouncilwashopingtoturna children'shomeinto aresidencefor adolescentgirls.
  • Mydaughterbecamequitedifficulttodealwith during her adolescentyears.
  • A lot of adolescentgirlssufferfromlowself-esteem.
  • It'ssadtoseeagrownmanactingin such an adolescent way.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Describing people who are young
  • atyourmother's kneeidiom
  • be knee-high to a grasshopperidiom
  • flower
  • fresh-faced
  • freshness
  • in the flower ofsomeone'syouthidiom
  • little
  • mother
  • prepubescent
  • slip
  • small
  • teen
  • teenage
  • time
  • yoof
  • young
  • young adult
  • youthful
  • youthfully
  • youthfulness
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Stupid and silly
(Definition ofadolescentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

adolescent| American Dictionary

adolescent
adjective
us
/ˌæd·əlˈes·ənt/
between theagesof achildand anadult:
The two adolescentboysmadetheirmotherverytired.
If youdescribeanadultas adolescent, youmeanthat thepersonisbehavingin asillyway.

adolescence

noun[C/U]us
/ˌæd·əlˈes·əns/
[C]He had anunhappyadolescence.

adolescent

noun[C]us
/ˌæd·əlˈes·ənt/
Iteachin amiddleschool, because I likeyoungadolescents.
(Definition ofadolescentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofadolescent

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We know and accept that adolescents are neither children nor adults and that they have specific developmental needs.
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Our claim is not that all adolescents are insane.
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The vast majority of intervention strategies for adolescents seem to adopt this perspective.
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Just how, specifically, is the developmental context of adolescents in society different now than it was a half-century ago?
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We have also tried, with varying degrees of awareness, effort, and success, to provide adolescents with constructive outlets to satisfy their developmental needs.
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The rapid fall in numbers of beds and lengths of stay for adolescents since the advent of managed care points in the same direction.
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Clearly, the developmental needs of adolescents differ from those of younger children.
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Early adolescents are also struggling for some autonomy from their parents, yet still need adult guidance.
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To illustrate this potential complication, suppose, for example, that an investigator found that adolescents experience more fatigue than children.
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Rather, it is possible that this increase reflects the fact that in general, adolescents experience more fatigue than children.
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The specificity of these findings may reflect the relatively high social deviance of cigarette smoking among adolescents today.
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As adolescents aged, they were less likely to show hostility in the discussions in which their parents also displayed hostility toward each other.
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There was a marginally significant difference in the percentage of enabling behavior displayed by the two groups of adolescents, t 70!
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We express appreciation to the adolescents and schools whose cooperation made this study possible.
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In the next section, we illustrate the utility of this approach with a multiwave study of low-income, urban adolescents.
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