childhood

noun

1. 童年；幼年；孩童时期
   the period of sb's life when they are a child
   1. childhood, adolescence and adulthood
      童年、青少年及成年
   2. in early childhood
      在婴幼儿时期
   3. childhood memories/experiences
      童年的回忆 / 经历
   4. She had a happy childhood.
      她有一个幸福的童年。
   5. childhood cancer
      儿童癌症

1. N-VAR 童年;幼年时代
   A person's childhood is the period of their life when they are a child.
   1. She had a happy childhood...
      她曾有过一个幸福的童年。
   2. He was remembering a story heard in childhood.
      他在回忆儿时听过的一个故事。
   3. ...childhood illnesses.
      儿童疾病

1. He wore leg braces after polio in childhood
   他幼时得过小儿麻痹症后双腿安上了支架。
2. From childhood on, she'd had a plan of action, one that would brook no interference
   从孩提时代起，她就有了一个行动计划，而且是个不容他人干预的计划。
3. She had a happy childhood
   她曾有过一个幸福的童年。
4. He was remembering a story heard in childhood.
   他在回忆儿时听过的一个故事。
5. Their lives are a far cry from his own poor childhood.
   他们的生活与他那贫苦的童年生活相比大相径庭。
6. Her childhood passion for collecting has not dimmed, but now she is more discerning.
   她孩提时培养起的对收藏的痴迷丝毫未减，现在只是变得更有眼力了。
7. Visiting Angkor was the fulfilment of a childhood dream.
   游览吴哥实现了孩提时的一个梦想。
8. Except for her illnesses, she had had a particularly happy childhood
   除了体弱多病外，她的童年特别幸福。
9. The emotional wounds of early childhood leave ineradicable scars
   童年早期的情感创伤留下了难以抚平的伤痕。
10. She had made their childhood so joyous and carefree.
    她使他们的童年充满欢乐，无忧无虑。
11. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.
    我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。
12. The daughter of a railway engineer, she at first had a somewhat nomadic childhood.
    作为一个铁路工程师的女儿，她最初的童年生活有些漂泊不定。
13. Her childhood was overshadowed by her mother's incarceration in a psychiatric hospital.
    她的母亲被关在精神病院，这给她的童年蒙上了阴影。
14. When I ask Nick about his childhood, he remembers a parade of babysitters.
    我问到尼克的童年生活时，他记起了一个又一个保姆。
15. Woodhead spent part of his childhood in Rhodesia.
    伍德黑德在罗得西亚度过了部分童年时光。
16. Since childhood, I put my own parents on a pedestal. I felt they could do no wrong
    从童年起，我就把自己的父母当作偶像崇拜，觉得他们做的一切都是对的。
17. His favourite childhood pursuits were sailing, swimming and cycling.
    儿时他最大的爱好是帆船运动、游泳和骑自行车。
18. These cookies seem to recapture all the textures and flavors we remember from childhood.
    这些饼干似乎重新唤回了我们记忆中童年时代的那种口感和味道。
19. His sense of guilt had its roots in his childhood loss of his younger sister
    他的负疚感源于他在童年失去了妹妹。
20. My mother, who had a sheltered upbringing, has fantastic memories of childhood.
    我妈妈在呵护下长大，对童年有着非常美好的回忆。
21. He used to spend childhood summers with his grandparents.
    他小时候夏天都是和爷爷奶奶一起度过的。
22. I married Shurla, my childhood sweetheart, in Liverpool.
    我在利物浦和我青梅竹马的恋人舒拉结婚了。
23. The psychiatrist successfully traced some of her problems to severe childhood traumas.
    这位精神病学家将她的一些问题成功地追溯到她童年时代遭受的严重创伤。
24. The study found that some alcoholics had clear personality traits showing up early in childhood
    研究发现一些酗酒者在童年早期就显现出鲜明的人格特征。
25. It was unreal. Like some crazy childhood nightmare
    这不是真的，就像儿时的某个荒唐的噩梦一样。
26. They have been good friends since childhood.
    他们从一小儿起就一直是好朋友。
27. The sight recalled the days of childhood to me.
    那情景使我回忆起童年。
28. My father told me a good story of his childhood.
    爸爸给我讲了一个他小时候的趣事。
29. The writer constructed the story from memories of her childhood.
    作者根据她自己童年的回忆构思了这个故事。
30. Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and manhood.
    青春期是儿童和成人阶段的过渡时期。

n.

a/sb's second childhood

• 老小孩时期；行为像小孩的晚年时期
  a time in the life of an adult person when they behave like a child again

noun

1. the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

   Synonym:    puerility

2. the time of person's life when they are a child