puerile是什么意思？puerile的意思翻译及词源和例句

GRE | 2024-11-26| 7

英 ['pjʊərɪl]
美 ['pjʊəraɪl]

puerile 孩子气的

来自拉丁语puer,小孩，儿童，来自PIE*pau,小的，词源同few,pupil.

puerile: puerile: [17] Latin puer denoted ‘child’, or more specifically ‘boy’ (like Greek pais ‘child’, source of English paediatric, pedagogue, etc, it came ultimately from a base which signified ‘smallness’, and also gave English pusillanimous). The derived adjective puerīlis ‘childlike’ began to acquire its negative connotations in Latin, and brought them with it into English. The related puerperal ‘of childbirth’ [18] comes from a Latin compound formed from puer and parere ‘give birth’ (source of English parent).
=> pusillanimous
puerile (adj.): 1660s, "youthful, boyish," a back-formation from puerility, or else from French puéril (15c.), from Latin puerilis "boyish; childish," from puer "boy, child" (see puerility). Disparaging sense, "juvenile, immature," is from 1680s.

1. Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile.: 音乐会的组织者指称该乐队的行为愚蠢幼稚。

3. The belief in it issues from the puerile egos of inferior men.: 这种信仰是下等人幼稚的自私意识中产生的.

4. He was more interested in states of mind than in " puerile superstitions, Gothic castles, and chimeras. ": 他乐于描写心情, 而不愿意描写 “ 无聊的迷信, 尖拱式的堡垒和妖魔鬼怪. ”