puerile

英 [ˈpjʊəraɪl]

美 [ˈpjʊrəl]

adj.  愚蠢的; 幼稚的; 孩子气的

GRE医学

BNC.39678 / COCA.36021

牛津词典

adj.

• 愚蠢的；幼稚的；孩子气的
  silly; suitable for a child rather than an adult

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 幼稚的；孩子气的；愚蠢的
  If you describe someone or something aspuerile, you mean that they are silly and childish.
  1. Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile...
     音乐会的组织者指称该乐队的行为愚蠢幼稚。
  2. The story is simple, even puerile.
     故事很简单，甚至有些幼稚。
  3. ...puerile, schoolboy humour.
     既幼稚又学生气的幽默

英英释义

adj

• displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  1. adolescent insecurity
  2. jejune responses to our problems
  3. their behavior was juvenile
  4. puerile jokes
  Synonym:adolescentjejunejuvenile
• of or characteristic of a child
  1. puerile breathing

双语例句

• Your euphemisms are so puerile.
  你的委婉说法很幼稚。
• But they have often laughed at our puerile and universal ( prevalent) fear.
  然而他们对我们幼稚的，普遍的恐惧感到好笑。
• Accordingly, advances in the research of puerile chronic persisting diarrhea in recent years are summarized in etiopathogenisis, pathogenesis and the advancement of treatment.
  因此就近年来对小儿迁延性、慢性腹泻的病因病机研究，及临床治疗进展情况进行归纳综述。
• She had me doing things I thought were puerile and degrading.
  她要我干的那些事，我认为既愚蠢又有辱人格。
• His newspapers mounted a puerile campaign against him.
  他的报纸发动了一场反对他的愚蠢而幼稚的运动。
• He can be very puerile when he's had a couple of drinks.
  他喝了几杯酒以后会非常傻气。
• You two are restless, meddling, imprudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile.
  你们两个都是靠不住的，惹是生非的，天职的恶棍，你们的主要动机就是自私的野心，又危险又无聊。
• They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, which is puerile and honest.
  在幼稚而诚实的民法里，那叫做父亲和母亲。
• We re-credit, keep the contract, to ensure product quality, variety principles of operating characteristics and puerile, and win the trust of our customers.
  我们重信用、守合同、保证产品质量，以多品种经营特色和薄利多销的原则，赢得了广大客户的信任。
• Our country to taxpayer right legal theory study compared to other countries started quite late, in its theoretical aspects of research or compare puerile.
  我国对纳税人知情权法律制度理论的研究相比较其他国家而言起步较晚，在其理论方面的研究还是比较稚嫩。