- 1青春期
Adolescence is the stretch of years when a child is turning into an adult — often say about 12 to 18, though actually the body and the mind do not switch on a birthday. It is the time of growing fast, of puberty, of moods, of wanting more freedom, of still needing care. Doctors, teachers, and newspapers use this word; families more often say the teenage years. It names the period, not the person (the person is an adolescent). It is a neutral, slightly formal noun. People argue about when it ends — some laws say 18, and some brains keep changing into the twenties — so treat ‘12 to 18’ as the usual picture, not a hard fence.
From the word’s history
From Old French adolescence, from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscēns 'young'.
源自拉丁文 adolēscentia，來自 adolēscēns「年輕的」。
組成From Middle English and Old French adolescence, from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscēns (‘young’); the same stem as adolescent.
同家族的字
- adolescentthe person in that stage; also the adjective
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adolescencenoun/ˌædəˈlɛsəns/
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The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity, beginning at the onset of puberty and with an endpoint defined either legally (at the age of majority, such as 18 in many jurisdictions) or psychocognitively (at various ages, depending on individual experience).
- Near-synonyms: teenagehood, teenhood, teenagerhood, teenagedom, teenagerdom, teendom
- During adolescence, the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。