growing pains
plural noun
1- neuralgic pains which occur in the limbs of some young children发育期痛（某些儿童在发育期产生的四肢神经痛）。
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- figurative the difficulties experienced in the early stages of an enterprise〈喻〉（企业）发展初期遇到的困难：
the growing pains of a young republic.
年轻共和国建国初期的困难。