puberty
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n. (名詞 noun)
1. 青春期,妙齡
2. (植物) 開花期
。師長
。年老
Codger
。物種源始
nascent
beginning to exist or develop
Point Blank opened in the U.S. in the same [period] as Bonnie and Clyde, becoming one more testament [to] the genre-bending and ground-breaking possibilities of the [nascent] Hollywood New Wave.
incipient
beginning to exist or appear, in an initial stage
epoch
a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etcthe beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything
The treaty ushered [in] an epoch of peace and good will.
The splitting of the atom [marked] an epoch in scientific discovery.
epochalresulting in a sprawling, unfocused account of an epochal [historical] moment.
inchoate
not yet completed or fully developed, rudimentary an inchoate [mass] of ideas on the subject.
Brolin’s work is superlatively expressive of the inchoate impulses [roiling] inside his sorry character.
Like Danny, the movie fulminates with [inchoate] thoughts and proceeds with more energy than coherence.
provenance
place or source of originThe provenance of Le Testament d'Orphée is unusual; desperately wishing to make a film in his last years but unable to find the [backing], Cocteau turned to the younger generation of filmmakers who had always admired his work and found a willing participant in François Truffaut,
Well, we're not sure of the provenance but I think they're quite nice. Yeah.
abecedarian
a person who is learning the letters of the alphabet
It’s an [abecedarian] morality play, and very [thin] stuff to try to stretch out over 90-plus minutes.
。選賢舉能
demotion
James E. Davis, was demoted following the Collins [debacle].
inductee
a sequence where [inductees] in Jockey shorts carry the Statue of Liberty through a Vietnam field
inductThe [committee] inducted her as [president]
They inducted him [into] the mystic rites of the order.
postulant
Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of [nuns]
tenure
the holding or possessing of anything
This little, uh, Fadela number is something I developed during my tenure as chief physician to the prime minister of Annexia.
Yes! Yes, we haven't done anything. And I'm probably about to get tenure.
As Judith and Sy merrily begin making plans for their new life of [domestic] bliss together, Larry begins receiving a series of anonymous letters from someone who seems intent on sabotaging his chance for tenure at the [university].
When the family pet's been assassinated... the owner does not want to hear... that one of her students was the triggerman. Does she wanna hear it was one of her [professors]? I've got tenure.
emeritus
retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position
Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years.
。小頑皮
。幼小
。幼獸
。無法無家
。走失
Pederast
。少男少女
lass
lad
a young [lad] and his [lass].
The [lad] is determined to let his acting do the talking
bloke
They had to do DNA on all those blokes, you know?
buckoChiefly Irish English . young fellow, chap, young companion
British Slang. a swaggering fellow
This is Paulie Biegler. This is the bucko, Paulie.
yob
British Slang. a teenage lout or hooligan Finney's turn as Arthur Seaton practically defined the archetypal working-class yob who is just smart enough to know that his life is going nowhere, but not sharp enough to do anything about it.
Why are you morons pissing me off? You have no police back-up, no warrant! And I'd follow two yob nurses from the Stasi? You're insane!
swain
a male admirer or lover.
a country lad.
a [love]-sick swain
Worse, she feels no obligation to take a place in the public [sphere]. Today's feminists may target the [boardroom], parliament or [pulpit], but this Jane seeks only a swain.
jilla girl or young woman
a sweetheart Nelly is a [jill]-of-all-trades seeking work to support herself
damsel
Professor, that question is unworthy of a man of science. It sounds more like a [swooning] damsel coming back to her senses.【古】【文】少女,閨女
。青春期
puberty
A series of flashbacks reveal the [pubescent] Danny as the most spirited Hebrew school student imaginable,
prurient
puerilea puerile piece of [writing]
You mean they're mediocre? They're insipid, neat, and puerile?
jejune
a jejune [novel] [diet]
there is something [jejune], even [juvenile], about the snarl and arrogance of its conceit
juvenilia
But this is very much Mr. Ozon's movie, rather than [just] a bit of recovered juvenilia or a hastily filmed theatrical performance.
naivete
It tells the story of Bess, a simple woman of childlike [naivete], who sacrifices herself to sexual brutality to save the life of the man she loves.
Because Morgan’s [influence] for the script is the Arthur Schnitzler play Reigen, one Deadline commenter references Eyes Wide Shut. (Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle was the basis for Kubrick’s movie.)
But I think that’s off the mark — Eyes Wide Shut is more about the sexual [naivete] of the main character, and how that leads him to misunderstand many sexual encounters. There’s class-based [material] in the movie, but that’s not what the story is really about.
borstalI did not tell Deborah of my plans for removing Mother. I have made no decision yet, as the last fate I wish to meet is one in a borstal. (常大寫) (英國) 少年犯感化院
Puberty
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