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单词 childlike
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childlike
(ldlaɪk )
adjective
You describe someone as childlike when they seem like a child in their character, appearance, or behaviour.
His most enduring quality is his childlike innocence.
Her behaviour was childlike and dependent.
Synonyms: innocent, trusting, simple, naive  
Collocations:
childlike curiosity
He was right, it's important to keep that childlike curiosity.
The Sun
To retain childlike curiosity in the teeth of commercialism.
Times, Sunday Times
A childlike curiosity and infectious love of the natural world.
Times, Sunday Times
As intelligent, childlike curiosity replaces blind faith, and humour replaces rancour, our future looks bright indeed.
The Sun
Our childlike curiosity lasted much longer into adult life.
The Sun
childlike enthusiasm
Even after more than four decades directing, and just about every plaudit possible, he retains a childlike enthusiasm for his work.
The Sun
He takes on the pen with childlike enthusiasm, spending hours meticulously drawing out his graffiti tag name.
Times, Sunday Times
Outside the restaurant, the bonhom-ie continued as, with an almost childlike enthusiasm, he gleefully pointed out and identified the gas-guzzling trucks trundling by.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a childlike enthusiasm; although some of his managers have also regarded it as a frustrating naivety.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a childlike enthusiasm for discovery, however, and his passion for the task at hand soon reveals itself.
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childlike innocence
But also, confusingly and faintly disturbingly, a childlike innocence that appeals to us all.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a snapshot of wonder, of mystical childlike innocence, frozen in time for me.
Christianity Today
He also has a childlike innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
In order to keep the character from getting too complex, the directors wanted him to have a childlike innocence.
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She loses most of her family, as well as her childlike innocence, at a tender age.
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childlike joy
Maybe it was a childlike joy at being back in the water.
Times, Sunday Times
Alas, the childlike joy he had in football just doesn't work in real life.
Times, Sunday Times
Football as an expression of childlike joy and simplicity.
Times, Sunday Times
His face lit up with childlike joy, causing all the other dinner guests to exhale in relief.
Times, Sunday Times
He starts scatting with unbridled, childlike joy.
Times, Sunday Times
childlike quality
In fact, there's a childlike quality to her when she speaks.
The Sun (2013)
There is also a childlike quality to his answers, a perpetual soft amusement in the arch of those bushy eyebrows and curl of the lip.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He also has a slightly excitable, childlike quality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There is a childlike quality to his voice as he talks with a slow drawl.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
childlike sense of
The other seven electro-pop tracks carry that almost childlike sense of fun that's earned the star her popularity.
The Sun
If the astronauts feel a sense of responsibility to the scientists, they also feel a childlike sense of discovery.
The Sun
The responsibilities of being an adult mean that we can lose our childlike sense of wonder and possibility.
Times, Sunday Times
All who knew him commented on his intelligence, affability and childlike sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
There's a childlike sense of wonder and exploration to these songs.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 像孩子的
Japanese: 子供のような
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