teen

英 [ti?n] 美['tined?]

中低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?teens;

teen 青少年

來(lái)自后綴-teen,十，詞源同 thirteen,nineteen.用于指十三到十九歲的青少年。

teen: teen: [OE] The element -teen (as in thirteen, fourteen, etc) originated as an inflected form of ten. The noun teen, usually used in the expression in one’s teens ‘from the ages of thirteen to nineteen’, was derived from it in the 17th century (‘Your poor young things, when they are once in the teens, think they shall never be married’, William Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master 1673). The compound teenage is first recorded in 1921, teenager in 1941.
=> ten
teen (n.): "teen-aged person," 1818 (but rare before 20c.), from -teen. As an adjective meaning "of or for teen-agers," from 1947.

1. I spent most of my teen years reading diet books.: 我青少年時(shí)期的大部分時(shí)間都用來(lái)閱讀控制飲食的書(shū)籍了。

2. He looks more like a stockbroker than a teen idol.: 他看起來(lái)不像是青少年偶像，而更像個(gè)股票經(jīng)紀(jì)人。

3. Pop isn't pop without huge teen sensations.: 不能激起廣大青少年熱情的流行音樂(lè)就不能稱(chēng)其為流行音樂(lè)。

4. It used to be that any teen who wanted a summer job could get one.: 從前，十幾歲的孩子到了暑假都能找著活干。

5. The teen - agers of our country all suffer the very good care.: 我國(guó)的青少年都受到很好的照顧.