- 1nA2/ˈtiːneɪdʒər/ · /ˈtiːneɪdʒə/青少年
A young person who is between 13 and 19 years old — older than a child, but not yet an adult.
示範例句 · Example
My sister is a teenager now — she turned thirteen last month.
逐字我妹妹現在是青少年了——她上個月滿十三歲。
teenager 指的是 13 到 19 歲的人,比 child 大,又還沒算 adult。這個字可以想成「名字裡帶著 -teen 的年紀」:thirteen、fourteen 一直到 nineteen,這幾個英文數字都有 teen,剛好就是這一段。所以 12 歲的小孩還不是 teenager,20 歲(twenty,沒有 teen)也已經走出這個字了;日常口語常直接說 teen。
core核心畫面
You can picture the word hiding inside itself: the years whose English names end in -teen — thirteen, fourteen, all the way to nineteen. A teenager is simply a person living inside those years: too old to be handled as a child, not yet counted as an adult, standing in the doorway between the two.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
teenagernoun/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/
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A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
- Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.
- Marco's main target market are late teenagers.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。