juvenile
adjective /ˈdʒuːvənaɪl/
/ˈdʒuːvənl/
- [only before noun] (formal or law
) relating to young people who are not yet adults法律 少年的;未成年的 - juvenile crime/employment
少年犯罪;童工的雇用 - juvenile offenders
少年罪犯 - What can be done to help these juvenile delinquents turn away from crime?
怎样做才能帮助这些少年犯远离犯罪?
WordfinderTopics Life stagesc1, Law and justicec1- adolescent
- age
- elderly
- generation
- infant
- juvenile
- middle-aged
- minor
- teenage
- young
- juvenile crime/employment
- (formal) relating to young birds and animals
少年 - the prey of juvenile owls
幼年猫头鹰的猎物
- the prey of juvenile owls
- (disapproving) silly and more typical of a child than an adult
synonym childish幼稚的;不成熟的;孩子气的 - juvenile behaviour
幼稚的行为 - Don't be so juvenile!
别那么孩子气!
- juvenile behaviour
词源early 17th cent.: from Latin juvenilis, from juvenis ‘young, a young person’.