释义 |
ˈungrown-up, ppl. a. and n. [un-1 8 c, 12.] A. adj. Not grown-up; immature.
1937Mind XLVI. 515 He may feel anxiety in the face of the infantile threats of his ungrown-up super-ego. 1945A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xxxiii. 229 There was something curiously unadult, ungrown-up about him. 1960C. Storr Marianne & Mark x. 116 She thought this a very ungrown-up thing to do. 1980J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson xi. 201 To some extent he..remained ungrown⁓up in that his code of social behaviour was what he had imbibed from his..parents and schoolmasters. B. n. An ungrown-up person. rare.
1946J. Lees-Milne Diary 22 Feb. (1983) 21 J. just the same sweet ungrown-up he always will be. |