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单词 second childhood
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Definition of second childhood in English:

second childhood

noun
  • A period in someone's adult life when they act as a child, either for fun or as a consequence of reduced mental capabilities.

    第二童年,年老昏聩状态期

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In some ways the 19-year-old Cavaliers star is experiencing a second childhood as a member of the U.S. Olympic basketball team.
    • It's like he's enjoying a second childhood, finding energy that he didn't have before.
    • Old age is second childhood and while enacting the role, I realised that aping an infant would make the character more lively.
    • Mr Hockney, it seems, is enjoying a second childhood.
    • Scooting around in the sunshine, Ulrich looks like a middle-aged guy searching for his second childhood.
    • They are miserable, so sick from poverty that they have entered old age or second childhood.
    • The regression of the senior lawyer into second childhood was able to mesh the two visual themes and return a sense of continuity to the play.
    • Aged persons, or those in second childhood, are obnoxious to the same causes, and suffer in proportion.
    • They're cantankerous and cussed and refuse to obey the rules, but they're like naughty schoolboys enjoying a second childhood.
    • I don't want to see puns, I don't want to see your carefree second childhood!
    • He tells himself all of them feel too young for what they are about to do, but this is no time for a second childhood.
    • If my grown up children caught me with it they might think I was entering my second childhood.
    • I think there's joy in telling a story for children and for adults too, who live through a second childhood when seeing this show.
    • And, no I'm not entering into my second childhood either.
    • Only this time you are older, less immune to the noise and you want to get on with enjoying your own second childhood.
    • Those in geriatric care are working with persons in their second childhood and thus get booted down to the bottom again.
    • Nevertheless, to witness them together is to witness a second childhood in full flow.
    • But he feels he has reached the end of his second childhood.
    • And second childhood now appears to mean a facility with computers.
    • The other burning issue of the week appears to be the emergence of second childhood in your middle age.
    Synonyms
    decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, confusion, alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, senile dementia

Definition of second childhood in US English:

second childhood

noun
  • A period in someone's adult life when they act as a child, either for fun or as a consequence of reduced mental capabilities.

    第二童年,年老昏聩状态期

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Old age is second childhood and while enacting the role, I realised that aping an infant would make the character more lively.
    • Nevertheless, to witness them together is to witness a second childhood in full flow.
    • I don't want to see puns, I don't want to see your carefree second childhood!
    • They're cantankerous and cussed and refuse to obey the rules, but they're like naughty schoolboys enjoying a second childhood.
    • Scooting around in the sunshine, Ulrich looks like a middle-aged guy searching for his second childhood.
    • He tells himself all of them feel too young for what they are about to do, but this is no time for a second childhood.
    • If my grown up children caught me with it they might think I was entering my second childhood.
    • In some ways the 19-year-old Cavaliers star is experiencing a second childhood as a member of the U.S. Olympic basketball team.
    • And, no I'm not entering into my second childhood either.
    • But he feels he has reached the end of his second childhood.
    • And second childhood now appears to mean a facility with computers.
    • Those in geriatric care are working with persons in their second childhood and thus get booted down to the bottom again.
    • The other burning issue of the week appears to be the emergence of second childhood in your middle age.
    • Aged persons, or those in second childhood, are obnoxious to the same causes, and suffer in proportion.
    • Only this time you are older, less immune to the noise and you want to get on with enjoying your own second childhood.
    • It's like he's enjoying a second childhood, finding energy that he didn't have before.
    • I think there's joy in telling a story for children and for adults too, who live through a second childhood when seeing this show.
    • Mr Hockney, it seems, is enjoying a second childhood.
    • They are miserable, so sick from poverty that they have entered old age or second childhood.
    • The regression of the senior lawyer into second childhood was able to mesh the two visual themes and return a sense of continuity to the play.
    Synonyms
    decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, confusion, alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, senile dementia
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