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单词 youngster
释义 young·ster
\ˈyəŋztə(r), -ŋ(k)st-\ noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : a usually vigorous or lively young person : youth
  < communities which do not have adequate facilities for the youngster in trouble — J.B.Costello >
  < tells us … of the adolescence of this youngster — H.G.Wells >
  < a bumper crop of teen-age youngsters fast ripening into … soldiers — U.S. News & World Report >
 b. : child
  < the mother with her youngsters tumbling about her feet >
 c. : a person in the relatively early years of manhood or of a career
  < it is among the youngsters, aged from 20 to 40, that the flame of confidence burns brightest — Drew Middleton >
  < only a handful … left, most of them youngsters in their twenties and thirties — Saturday Review >
 d. : an older or aged person retaining the vitality or vigor of youth
  < a sprightly youngster of eighty, he's still going strong doing six shows a day — Irish Digest >
2.
 a. : a midshipman who has served less than four years — compare oldster 1
 b. : a sophomore at a military academy (as the United States Naval Academy)
3.
 a. : a young mammal, bird, or plant especially of a domesticated or cultivated breed or type
  < owners can try out their youngsters for the first time on a racecourse — Dennis Craig >
  < one youngster … old enough to fly — T.M.Downs >
  < no trees except for a few hardy youngsters — Nathaniel Burt >
 b. youngsters plural, dialect : the young leaves of the common wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
4. : something newly formed, instituted, or established
 < ballet … was just about a hundred years old, practically a youngster as art forms go — Anatole Chujoy >
 < joined hands with another promising youngster, a journalistic fraternity — Quill >
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