音标:['pjuәrail] ;
a. 孩子气的, 天真的, 未成熟的
[医] 儿童的, 幼稚的
a. of or characteristic of a child
词型变化:名词复数形式 : pueriles
考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
形容词100%

puerile的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. He was trying to give puerile excuses.他给出的借口总是愚蠢至极。
  2. She was tired of answering these puerile questions.她回答这些幼稚的问题觉得不胜其烦.
  3. John made mincemeat of all her arguments, and said that he had never heard anything so puerile before.约翰把她的论点驳得体无完肤,并说他从来没有听过这样幼稚可笑的道理。

经典引文

  • She would boast, or use puerile slang expressions from school.

    出自:M. Dickens
【近义词】

The World was an orange when I went to school, 我上学的时候,世界对我来说就像一个橙子, and there were only three things I can remember that I ever learned for sure that the Dutch children wore wooden shoes, 我记得只有三个细

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