adolescent
英 [?d?'les(?)nt]
美 [,?d?'l?snt]
助記提示
1. ad- "to" + ol- "al-, nourish" + -esc- (inchoative, 表始動(dòng)詞) + -ent.
2. => to be nourished, begin to nourish, begin to grow.
3. 由此引申為：青春期的，未成熟的，成長中的。
中文詞源
adolescent 青少年的前綴ad-, 去，往。詞根ol, 成長，同adult. -esce, 起始動(dòng)詞后綴，即成長中的。
英文詞源
- adolescent
- adolescent: [15] The original notion lying behind both adolescent and adult is of ‘nourishment’. The Latin verb alere meant ‘nourish’ (alimentary and alimony come from it, and it is related to old). A derivative of this, denoting the beginning of an action, was alēscere ‘be nourished’, hence ‘grow’. The addition of the prefix ad- produced adolēscere.
Its present participial stem, adolēscent- ‘growing’, passed into English as the noun adolescent ‘a(chǎn) youth’ (the adjective appears not to have occurred before the end of the 18th century). Its past participle, adultus ‘grown’, was adopted into English as adult in the 16th century.
=> adult, alimentary, alimony, coalesce, coalition, proletarian, prolific - adolescent (n.)
- mid-15c., "youth, young man," from Middle French adolescent (15c.) or directly from Latin adolescentem (nominative adolescens) "growing, near maturity, youthful," present participle of adolescere "grow up, come to maturity, ripen," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + alescere "be nourished," hence, "increase, grow up," inchoative of alere "to nourish" (see old). Adolesce was a back-formed verb used early 20c. by H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, Louis MacNeice, but it seems not to have taken.
- adolescent (adj.)
- 1785, from Latin adolescentem (nominative adolescens) "growing, near maturity, youthful," present participle of adolescere "grow up, come to maturity, ripen" (see adolescent (n.)).
雙語例句
- 1. Adolescent suicide is rarely an impulsive reaction to immediate distress.
- 青少年自殺很少是由于突然發(fā)生不幸而作出的沖動(dòng)反應(yīng)。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He spent his adolescent years playing guitar in the church band.
- 他在教堂的樂隊(duì)里彈吉他，度過了他的青少年時(shí)期。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. A little adolescent rebellion is commonly believed to be healthy.
- 大家一致認(rèn)為，青少年有點(diǎn)叛逆是正常的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behavior.
- 父母擔(dān)心音樂對青春期孩子的行為所產(chǎn)生的影響。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Why give publicity to this self-indulgent, adolescent oaf?
- 為什么要宣傳報(bào)道這個(gè)行為任性、青春期未滿的白癡呢？
來自柯林斯例句