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单词 puerility
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 jokepuerility /pjʊˈrɪləti/ noun [uncountable]
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