| 单词 | youngest days |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyoungest days 4. Designating the earliest part of (one's) life; earliest. Often with possessive adjective. Chiefly in youngest days, youngest years. Cf. young adj. 4, younger adj. 3. ΘΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > belonging to early part of life younger1538 springing1556 youngest1570 junior1606 vernant1793 vernal1794 in bud1847 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Spirituall Husbandry i. in tr. Popish Kingdome f. 67 Thus would I haue him liue with men that good and vertuous bee, In yongest yeares, when as you list you bow the tender tree [no direct parallel in L. original]. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxviii. 64 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 130 Thou dost me fill, And hast from yongest yeares, With terrifying feares. 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory ii. xii. 552 As a runner as soon as he beginneth his race is hasting to the end of it; so are your lives even in your youngest time. 1758 tr. Voltaire Maid of Orleans I. vii. 129 From her youngest years she could never be reproached for any other crime than that of indulging her amorous disposition. 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 77/1 Often have I been a sharer in such scenes; and never, even in my youngest years, without having my heart deeply impressed by the circumstances. 1848 Punch 14 195/1 Any one's voice, in his youngest days, is a somewhat disagreeable compound of the creaking of a door and the whining of a cat. 1911 M. P. E. Groszmann Career of Child viii. 144 The youngest years of the child's school life, including at least the so-called first grade. 2003 Honolulu Advertiser 2 Oct. b1 From his youngest days as the son of a cellist,..music was his life. < as lemmas |
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