| 释义 |
girlhood|ˈgɜːlhʊd|
[f. girl n. + -hood.]
The state of being a girl; the time of life during which one is a girl; concr. girls collectively.
1785A. Seward Let. Boswell 25 Mar. Lett. I. x. 38 My mother passed her days of girlhood with an uncle at Warwick. 1831Lytton Godolph. 1 Not a trace of the bloom or the softness of girlhood could be marked on her countenance. 1862Trollope Small House at Allington in Cornh. Mag. VI. 568 The sportiveness and kitten-like gambols of girlhood. 1866A. Thomas Played Out I. xv. 285 A group of girlhood. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xiii. 118 The great queen, who had known him from her girlhood. 1883L. Oliphant Altiora Peto I. 213 If the girlhood of the Pacific slope are half as innocent as they are insolent [etc.]. |