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youthjU:Wnthe period of your life when you are young, the state of being young, or a young person or people青春期，青春，年轻人It seems a shame to spend the whole of your youth shut away studying. [U]你把整个青春时期都用在闭门学习上似乎是个遗憾。With parents that strict I don't imagine she ever really had a youth. [C]有着那么严厉的父母，我想她从未有过真正的青春。I was a fairly good football player in my youth. [U]我在年轻时是一个相当不错的足球运动员。I left my sister counting her grey hairs and mourning her lost youth. [U]我听任姐姐数着她变灰了的头发哀叹她已逝的青春。The first volume is the author's account of his misspent youth in the bars of Dublin. [U]第一册是作者对他在都柏林酒吧里虚度青春的描述。We live in a society that worships youth (= the state of being young). [U]我们生活在一个崇拜年轻的社会里。He looks like a man who's found the secret to eternal youth (=being young). [U]他看上去像是一个找到了永葆青春秘诀的人。You may not have played tennis as often as him but at least you've got youth on your side (=you are young). [U]你打网球也许没有像他那么频繁，但至少你还年轻。A youth is a boy or a young man.男青年，小伙子She brought home another spotty youth last week.[C]她上周带回家另一个满脸粉刺的小伙子。Gangs of youths were throwing stones and bottles at the police. [C]成群的年轻人在向警察投掷石头和瓶子。For these offences he received a nine-month youth custody sentence.由于犯有这些罪行，他受到了青年拘留9个月的判决。(literary) In the film he is portrayed very much as a callow youth (= a young person lacking experience). [C]在影片中他被描绘成一个非常稚嫩的年轻人。Youth can also mean young people, both male and female, considered as a group.(总称)(男女)青年们Oh, the arrogance of youth! [U]哦，年轻人的傲慢!The youth of today they've got no manners! [U]如今的年轻人----他们没有礼貌!They were the first rock band to really capture the imagination of the nation's disaffected youth. [U]他们是第一个真正抓住国内心怀不满的青年人的想象力的摇滚乐团。Like most capital cities in Europe it has a thriving youth culture.与欧洲大部分首都城市一样，它有一个繁荣的青年文化。This area has the second highest youth unemployment rate in England.这一地区的青年失业率在英国占第二位。A youth club is a place that older children can go to in order to meet other children, play sports and do other social activities.青年俱乐部Rosie is off to a disco at the local youth club tonight.今晚罗琦去当地青年俱乐部举办的一个迪斯科舞会了。A youth hostel is a place where people, esp. young people, can stay cheaply for short periods when they are travelling.(为旅行中的青年提供廉价住宿的)青年招待所，青年寄宿所When we went on our cycling tour, we stayed mainly in youth hostels.我们骑自行车旅行时，主要住在青年招待所里。I used to go youth-hostelling when I was a student.我当学生的时候曾常常去住青年招待所。"Love like youth is wasted on the young."(from the song The Second Time Around written by Sammy Cahn, 1960)“爱情犹如青春在年轻人身上被白白浪费。”(选自萨米·卡恩所作的歌曲“再来一回”)
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