childhood

IPA/ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/
KK[tʃˈaɪldhˌʊd]IPA/ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/

childhood — 名詞

  • childhoodsingular
  • childhoodsplural

1. The years of a person's life from birth to the early teenage period, before they

1.名詞B1
釋義

童年

從出生到青少年之間的成長階段

The years of a person's life from birth to the early teenage period, before they become an adult.

例句

Priya has happy memories of her childhood in a small village by the sea.

Priya 對她在海邊小村莊的童年有著快樂的回憶。

collocation: memories of childhood

During his childhood, Theo lived in three different countries because of his father's job.

Theo 童年時期因為父親工作的關係，曾在三個不同的國家生活。

preposition: during childhood

常見搭配
  • happy / difficult / lonely childhood
  • childhood memories / friends / home / illness / dream
  • in / during / since / throughout childhood
  • early / late childhood
同義詞
  • youth

    wider in scope, often includes teenage and young adult years; less specific to early life

  • infancy

    only the very first years (birth to ~age 2); much narrower than childhood

  • adolescence

    the teenage years only; focuses on the transition between childhood and adulthood

反義詞
  • adulthood

    the stage of life after childhood, when a person is fully grown

文法句型

in/during/since + childhood

childhood + noun (childhood memories / childhood friends / childhood home)

a/an + adjective + childhood

用法筆記

When childhood is described with an adjective, it usually takes the article a or an (e.g., 'a happy childhood,' 'a difficult childhood'). In this pattern, childhood behaves like a countable noun. Without an adjective, it remains uncountable: 'Childhood is a time of learning.'

常見錯誤

I had happy childhood in the countryside.
I had a happy childhood in the countryside.
When childhood follows an adjective, an article is needed.
Childhoods are important for development.
Childhood is important for development.
Childhood is uncountable and does not normally appear in plural form.
慣用語

second childhood

idiom

A period in old age when a person starts behaving like a child again, often because of illness or a decline in mental abilities.

第二童年；返老還童（指老年人因疾病或老化而出現類似孩童的行為）

After his stroke, Grandpa seemed to be in his second childhood — he spent hours playing with toy cars and watching cartoons.

a/somebody’s second childhood

idiom

A period when an older adult starts acting like a child again.

第二童年

Grandpa bought a toy train set during his second childhood.

Is Uncle Joe having a second childhood with all those video games?

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常用片語

  • at childhood
  • into childhood

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