单词	puerile
释义	puerilepuer‧ile /ˈpjʊəraɪl $ ˈpjʊrəl/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINpuerile Origin: 1500-1600 French puéril, from Latin puerilis, from puer ‘boy, child’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES puerile jokes EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS An apparently astonishing claim, and a puerile one too, but true none the less. I have devoted myself to knowledge, while you prefer puerile things like prose, rhythm and metre. It is true that one can scan a whole evening's programmes and find only puerile junk on every channel. What a puerile thing to say! silly and stupid SYN  childish:  a puerile joke—puerility /pjʊˈrɪləti/ noun [uncountable]
随便看	studio studio audience studious studiously studiousness stud muffin study study hall stuff stuffed stuffed animal stuffed shirt stuffed-up stuffiness stuffing stuffy stultify stultifying stumble stumbling block stump stumped stumpy stun stung

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