单词 | growing pains |
释义 | > as lemmasgrowing pains growing pains n. (see quot. 1886); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > evolving or developing > pain or effort of creation growing pains1810 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > in early stages of anything growing pains1810 teething troubles1937 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > growing pains thrifta1800 growing pains1810 1810 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1874) 79 In the third [class], as indicating a greater energy..yet still with some of the growing-pains, and the awkwardness of growth—I place—Troilus and Cressida [etc.]. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Growing pains, the neuralgic pains in the limbs which are not uncommon in young persons during the period of growth. 1915 A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 Germany seems to be like..a new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 70 The struggles of a generation towards complete rationality..are growing pains. < as lemmas |
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