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单词
puerile
释义
puerile
puer‧ile
/
ˈpjʊəraɪl
$
ˈpjʊrəl
/
adjective
formal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
puerile
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]
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