(noun.) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence.
(noun.) the time of person's life when they are a child.
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双语例句
In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
He brought the happiness of childhood into political discussion, and this opened up a new source of political power. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
My tears had risen, just as in childhood: I ordered them back to their source. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I should think, from her childhood, she must have lived in public stations; and in her youth might very likely have been a barmaid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
He loved his daughter with more fondness now, perhaps, than ever he had done since the days of her childhood. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Earth, gray with age, shall hear the strain Which o’er her childhood rolled; For her the morning stars again Shall sing their song of old. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
It was her father; and she, since childhood, had been the guide of his darkened steps. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
I cannot call to mind where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained glass window in a church. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Both of these conditions are at their height in childhood and youth. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
In this state of second childhood, it had an air of being in its own way garrulous about its early life. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
If you would say the old good words, it would make me feel something of the pious simplicity of my childhood. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
I have passed out of childhood into old age. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.