词汇释义
puerile TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈpjʊə.raɪl/ US /ˈpjuː.ɚ.ɪl/
adj, If you describe someone or something as puerile, you mean that they are silly and childish.幼稚的，孩子气的，愚蠢的
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外刊例句
1. Farmers in Palestine, fishermen in Mozambique, and students in Kabul all pay a heavy price for his unprincipled lies and puerile irresponsibility.(The Guardian)
2. Calling Mr. Macron’s position on the caricatures “puerile,” Mr. Bayart said images are intended to “remind people that they don’t belong here, they are from somewhere else.”(New York Times)
3. Their hope, Sourisseau wrote, is that “no one will any longer be able to dispute their puerile and criminal vanity.”(Washington Post)
4. It wouldn’t be easy to produce anything more dull and commonplace — awkwardly expressed and slipshod, so loose-jointed, so puerile.(Washington Post)
5. Other than the occasionally puerile humor and iffy-for-some jokes and language, this show doesn’t contain anything too upsetting.(Washington Post)
6. There is no point talking to Trump, because he will not change; every seemingly sober presidential moment – cheered by centrist observers – is followed by 10 puerile performances of ranting and raving.(The Guardian)
7. The search engine on the firm’s website started offering customers puerile responses to their inquiries.(TheEconomist)
8. You might expect that sort of puerile move from the owner of an unmuffled ’95 Mustang, but from one of the world’s largest auto manufacturers?(Time)
9. The very idea of Weiner’s writing being described as “infantile… puerile… and cliché” is downright impossible to believe — but it happened.(Forbes)
10. The desire for a personal telephone call from Barack Obama would be puerile if the potential fallout – literal and figurative – were not so deadly.(The Guardian)
11. Maybe then I'm experiencing Stockholm syndrome, but the more I play the game, the more I believe Metal Gear Solid V is as elegant and inspired as it is tawdry, puerile, and ignorant.(The Verge)
12. Line to line, gag to gag, Wet Hot American Summer was an idiotic, puerile, completely brilliant attempt to dismantle the entire grammar of popular storytelling.(The Verge)
词汇搭配
puerile performance, behavior, move, humor, irresponsibility
词汇家族
puerility
词汇来源
1660s, "youthful, boyish," a back-formation from puerility (q.v.), or else from French puéril (15c.), from Latin puerilis "boyish; childish," from puer "boy, child." The depreciative sense of "merely juvenile, immature, lacking intellectual force" is from 1680s.
近义词
babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish
反义词
mature, experienced, sophisticated, worldly, grown-up
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