young

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/jʌŋ/    /jʌŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals. often
    — The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
动词 v.
  1. To become or seem to become younger. informal
    — The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).
  2. To cause to appear younger. informal
    — Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.
  3. To exhibit younging.
    — Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
形容词 adj.
  1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
    — a lamb is a young sheep
  2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
    — the age of space travel is still young
  3. advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
    — And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young, Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.
  4. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
    — The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.
  5. Early (of a decade of life).
    — 1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41, […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.
  6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
    — Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  7. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
    — The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
  8. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. obsolete
    — Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

词形变化

younger comparative youngest superlative young plural youngs plural youngs present,singular,third-person younging participle,present younged participle,past younged past

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
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