youth是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the period of your life when you are young, or the state of being young -- 青年時期；年輕，青春

  • I was a fairly good football player in my youth. 我年輕時是個相當不錯的足球員。

  • The first volume is the author's account of his misspent youth in the bars of Dublin. 第一卷是作者對他在都柏林酒吧裡虛度青春的敘述。

  • He looks like a man who's found the secret to eternal youth (= staying young). 他看上去似乎掌握了永葆青春的秘訣。

  • You may not have played tennis as often as him, but at least you've got youth on your side (= you are young). 你可能沒像他那樣經常打網球，但至少你有年輕的優勢。

• 1 a boy or a young man -- 毛頭小夥；青年男子

  • Gangs of youths were throwing stones and bottles at the police. 一夥男青年在向警察投擲石塊和瓶子。

• 2 young people, both male and female, considered as a group -- （總稱）青年，年輕人

  • the youth of today 如今的年輕人

  • the nation's disaffected youth 那個國家心懷不滿的年輕人