youth
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++youth /juːθ/ ●●● S2 W2 noun (plural youths /juːðz $ juːðz, juːθs/) 1 [uncountable]SSY the period of time when someone is young, especially the period when someone is a teenager 青年时期；〔尤指〕青少年时期 → old agein somebody’s youth Many of these people had used drugs in their youth. 这些人中有许多人年轻时吸过毒。 RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say when I was young, rather than saying in my youth: 在日常英语中，人们一般都说 when I was young，而不说 in my youthThey were friends when they were young. 他们年轻的时候是朋友。2 [countable]SSY a teenage boy – used especially in newspapers to show disapproval 少年，小伙子〔尤用于报纸上，含贬义〕 a gang of youths 一伙少年► see thesaurus at child, man3 [uncountable]SSY young people in general 青年，年轻人〔总称〕the youth of something The youth of today are the pensioners of tomorrow. 今天的年轻人就是明天领养老金的人。4 [uncountable]YOUNG the quality or state of being young 年幼，年轻；青春，朝气 OPP age Despite his youth, he had travelled alone. 他虽然年纪还小，却已独自旅行过了。 The cream will restore youth and vitality to your skin. 这款乳霜可以让你的肌肤恢复青春与活力。 COLLOCATIONSverbsspend your youth 度过青年时代She spent her youth in India. 她在印度度过她的青年时代。relive/recapture your youth (=do things you did when young, to try and experience youth again) 重温年轻时代nThe band’s fans are clearly reliving their youth.nThe sports car is an attempt to recapture his youth.phrasesa misspent youth (=spent doing things that were bad or not useful) 虚度的青春年华nHe is trying to make up for his misspent youth.your lost youth (=the time long ago when you were young) 逝去的青春nHe wept for his lost youth.the days/dreams/friends etc of somebody’s youth 某人的青春时光/青春梦想/年轻时的朋友等nHe had long ago forgotten the dreams of his youth.Examples from the Corpus
youth• None the less Tupac headed a youth group, the New Afrikan Panthers, performing at community centres.• a church youth group• Caroline had been a ballet dancer in her youth.• She revisited all the places where she had spent her youth.• I studied it in my youth, and my love of Faure, Debussy and Ravel encouraged me to improve it.• This was one of the great questions of my youth in the 60s, of course.• a gang of youths on motorbikes• It had about it the idealism of youth.• There has been a corresponding shift in studies of youth and in the kind of questions asked by sociologists.• This was the first independent radio station in the republic and was to be run by the students' official youth organization.• Some youths astride shining motor-cycles had congregated outside a closed motor-cycle shop.• One of the youths pushed her against the wall and took her bag.• The police had questioned three youths, but then later released them without charge.• Horton teaches at a school for troubled youths in San Diego.• Society seems obsessed with youth and wealth.gang of youths• Over the past year I've been threatened and blackmailed by a gang of youths.• A policeman, white, talking to a gang of youths, black.• A gang of youths threw stones and missiles at officers who were trying to break up the display.the youth of something• These are the youth of our future.• If the wines show a certain lack of intensity, it is probably a result of the youth of the vines.• So should you look for this too in the youth of their killer?• Trevor Sorbie thinks the patronising attitudes of some salons can be explained by the youth of the stylists.• The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive, rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment.• Whatever has happened to the youth of today?• That I feel it sends the wrong message to the youth of the country.• Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many.Origin youth Old English geoguthyouth noun →REGISTER1 →COLLOCATIONS1LDOCE OnlineChinese
young, time of the the when someone especially Corpus is period
youth
youth S2 W2 /juːθ/
noun (plural youths /juːðz $ juːðz, juːθs/)
in sb’s youth
Many of these people had used drugs in their youth.
REGISTER
In everyday English, people usually say when I was young, rather than saying in my youth:
▪They were friends when they were young.
2. [countable] a teenage boy – used especially in newspapers to show disapproval:
a gang of youths
3. [uncountable] young people in general
the youth of something
The youth of today are the pensioners of tomorrow.
4. [uncountable] the quality or state of being young
OPP age:
Despite his youth, he had travelled alone.
The cream will restore youth and vitality to your skin.
■ verbs
▪spend your youth She spent her youth in India.
▪relive/recapture your youth (=do things you did when young, to try and experience youth again) The band’s fans are clearly reliving their youth. | The sports car is an attempt to recapture his youth.
■ phrases
▪a misspent youth (=spent doing things that were bad or not useful) He is trying to make up for his misspent youth.
▪your lost youth (=the time long ago when you were young) He wept for his lost youth.
▪the days/dreams/friends etc of sb’s youth He had long ago forgotten the dreams of his youth.
youth S2 W2 /juːθ/
noun (plural youths /juːðz $ juːðz, juːθs/) Word Family: noun: young, youngster, youth, youthfulness; adjective: young, youthful; adverb: youthfully
Language: Old English
Origin: geoguth
1. [uncountable] the period of time when someone is young, especially the period when someone is a teenager ⇨ old ageOrigin: geoguth
in sb’s youth
REGISTER
In everyday English, people usually say when I was young, rather than saying in my youth:
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2. [countable] a teenage boy – used especially in newspapers to show disapproval:
3. [uncountable] young people in general
the youth of something
4. [uncountable] the quality or state of being young
OPP age:
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