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/ˈtiːneɪdʒər/ · /ˈtiːneɪdʒə/
A young person who is between 13 and 19 years old — older than a child, but not yet an adult.
青少年
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You can picture the word hiding inside itself: the years whose English names end in -teen — thirteen, fourteen, all the way to nineteen. A teenager is simply a person living inside those years: too old to be handled as a child, not yet counted as an adult, standing in the doorway between the two.
可以想成這個字把答案藏在自己身體裡:英文裡 thir-teen、four-teen 一路到 nine-teen,這些…更多收起
可以想成這個字把答案藏在自己身體裡:英文裡 thir-teen、four-teen 一路到 nine-teen,這些年紀的名字都以 -teen 結尾,而 teenager 就是正住在那幾年裡的人。一種想法是:他們站在童年與成年之間的那道門檻上——已經不能再當小孩對待,也還沒被算進大人的世界,兩邊都沾一點,兩邊都還不完全屬於。原始詞典資料1 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。
teenagernoun/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/
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A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
- Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.
- Marco's main target market are late teenagers.
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。