puerility

• n. 天真，幼稚；孩子氣，未成熟

來自puerile,孩子氣的。

puerility (n.)

late 15c., from Middle French puérilité (15c.), from Latin puerilitatem (nominative puerilitas) "childishness," from puerilis "boyish, youthful; childish, trivial, silly," from puer "child, boy," from PIE *pau- (1) "few, little," with sense extended to "small, young" (cognates: Latin putus "boy," Sanskrit putrah "son, boy," Avestan puthra- "son, child;" see few (adj.)).

1. There was always, in her conversation, the same odd mixture of audacity and puerility.

她的談吐非常奇特,總是那么既大膽放肆同時又天真無邪.

來自辭典例句

2. Puerility is kind of a desire - free state.

天真是一種沒有欲望的狀態(tài).

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