| 单词 | puberty |
| 释义 | puberty (once / 4119 pages) n Puberty is a time of life when your sex organs start working like an adult's. During puberty, girls and boys start to become women and men. One of the most difficult yet exciting times in life has to be puberty: it's an awkward period between childhood and adulthood when your body rapidly changes. You go through a growth spurt, hair sprouts in new places. Your sex organs start to work for the first time. Hormones are coursing through your veins. Your voice may change. So when you think of puberty, think "awkward stage." WORD FAMILYpuberty: prepuberty, pubertal+/prepuberty: prepubertal USAGE EXAMPLESI thought I was trying to manage my weight, but what I was trying to manage was puberty. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) Many believe that their Islamic religion instructs fathers to marry off their daughters at puberty. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) There is a very sacred puberty ceremony, for example, of adolescent girls running in different directions to pay respect to nature. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) n the time of life when sex glands become functional Syn|Hyper pubescence time of life a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state |
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