| 英语单词 | childish |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['tʃaɪldɪʃ] 美 ['tʃaɪldɪʃ] |
| 中文释义 | adj.孩子气的;幼稚的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) She clapped her hands in childish glee. (2) The little girl spoke in a high childish voice. (3) They derided his efforts as childish. (4) It is childish to run into danger for nothing. (5) I've had enough of her childish stunts. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 她孩子气地高兴地拍着手。 (2) 小女孩说话时声音尖尖的,带着童音。 (3) 他们嘲笑他的做法很幼稚。 (4) 白白地去冒危险是幼稚的。 (5) 她那些幼稚的愚蠢行为我受够了。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If you act immature or bratty, you're being childish. A childish dinner guest might pout because you didn't make dessert. |
| vocabulary扩展 | While the adjective childish is sometimes used to simply mean "like a child," it's more common to use childlike in this way. When your teacher comments that your chattering during class is childish behavior, she means that you're acting as juvenile as a four year old child. This negative implication has been attached to childish since the 15th century. The word comes from the Old English cildisc, "proper to a child." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]孩子的;孩子般的 Childish means relating to or typical of a child. [usu ADJ n]
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](尤指成年人)幼稚的,孩子气的 If you describe someone, especially an adult, as childish, you disapprove of them because they behave in an immature way. [disapproval]
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