| 释义 |
adolesce, v.|ædəˈlɛs|
[Back-formation f. adolescent.]
intr. To become adolescent or pass through adolescence.
1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay ii. iv. 214 He does his silly utmost to prevent our reading and seeing the one thing, the one sort of discussion we find..supremely interesting. So we don't adolesce; we blunder up to sex. 1934G. B. Shaw On the Rocks 166 The training of the scholar and the sportsman may split and diverge as they adolesce; but they must start from a common training and a common morality as children. 1938L. MacNeice I Crossed the Minch ix. 128 In September I shall be thirty. How much longer..shall [I] take over adolescing? |