- 1nB1
/ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/
The time in your life when you are a child.
童年
複數 childhoods
核心畫面
Picture the whole stretch of years when you were still a child — not one memory, but the entire period, looked back on from further along. That is why the word almost always appears in the past tense, with things attached to it: a friend from then, a home from then.
可以想成：你還是小孩的那整段年月——不是某一個回憶，而是整個時期，通常是從後來的位置回頭看的。所以這個字幾乎都跟過去…更多收起
可以想成：你還是小孩的那整段年月——不是某一個回憶，而是整個時期，通常是從後來的位置回頭看的。所以這個字幾乎都跟過去式一起出現，也常常掛著別的東西：那時候的朋友、那時候的家。字尾 -hood 的作用就是把一個身分（child）變成「處在那個身分的時期」，同一組還有 adulthood、motherhood。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
childhoodnoun/ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/
- 1
The state of being a child.
- Of a ſuretie, it is a ioyfull thynge to reioyce in the chyldhode of chyldren, but it is a ryght cruel thing to ſuffre the importunities of their mothers.
- To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.
- 2
The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
- He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
- 3
The early stages of development of something.
- the childhood of our joy
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。