单词 | young |
释义 | young (jʌŋ ) Word forms: younger (jʌŋgəʳ ), youngest (jʌŋgəst ) 1. adjective A1 A young person, animal, or plant has not lived or existed for very long and is not yet mature. In Scotland, young people can marry at 16. You weren't so very young when she died; you were old enough to remember. ...a field of young barley. He played with his younger brother. The young are people who are young. The association is advising pregnant women, the very young and the elderly to avoid such foods. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use young to describe a time when a person or thing was young. In her younger days my mother had been a successful fashionwear saleswoman. 3. adjective Someone who is young in appearance or behaviour looks or behaves as if they are young. I was twenty-three, I suppose, and young for my age. [+ for] He seemed to me very young and very lonely. 4. plural noun The young of an animal are its babies. The hen may not be able to feed its young. Synonyms: offspring, baby, litter, family Idioms: young blood young people who are brought into a company or organization in order to provide new ideas or new talent The selectors have at last shown some bravery and forward thinking and gone for some young blood, fielding a side whose average age is just 26. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: young voter It focuses on campus and community organizing and young voter engagement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The project registered more than 540,000 youth ages 1830 and was credited with playing a substantial role in the young voter turnout increase in 2006. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In some respects, particularly economically, its potential young voters are inching to the right. Times, Sunday Times By tour’s end, the students had registered at least 10,000 young voters and met more than 50 youth groups. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Now the mainstream parties need to explore new ways of engaging young voters. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 年轻的 Japanese: 若い |
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