the time in a person’s life when he or she develops from a child into an adult synonym puberty青春期;青春 Adolescence brings about major changes in a young person’s body. 在青春期时身体会发生很大变化。 He had survived a difficult adolescence. 他度过了一个艰难的青春期。
Collocations The ages of lifeTopics Life stagesc1The ages of life 年龄段 Childhood/youth 童年/青年时期 - be born and raised/bred in Oxford; into a wealthy/middle-class family
- have a happy/an unhappy/a tough childhood
有幸福/不幸/艰苦的童年 - grow up in a musical family/in an orphanage/on a farm
成长于音乐之家/孤儿院/农场 - be/grow up an only child (= with no brothers or sisters)
是独生子 - reach/hit/enter/go through adolescence/puberty
进入/经历青春期 - be in your teens/early twenties/mid-twenties/late twenties
十几岁;二十出头;二十五岁左右;将近三十岁 - undergo/experience physical/psychological changes
经历生理/心理变化 - give in to/succumb to/resist peer pressure
屈服于/顶住同辈的压力 - assert your independence/individuality
维护独立/个性
Adulthood 成年 - leave school/university/home
中学/大学毕业;离家 - go out to work (at sixteen)
(16 岁)投身工作 - get/find a job/partner
找到工作/伴侣 - be/get engaged/married
订婚;结婚 - have/get a wife/husband/mortgage/steady job
有妻子/丈夫/按揭贷款/稳定的工作 - settle down and have kids/children/a family
安定下来并生儿育女 - begin/start/launch/build a career (in politics/science/the music industry)
开始(政治/科学/音乐)职业生涯 - prove (to be)/represent/mark/reach a turning point in your life/career
最终成为/代表/标志/达到某人人生/某人职业生涯的转折点 - reach/be well into/settle into middle age
进入/安度中年 - have/suffer/go through a midlife crisis
经历中年危机 - take/consider early retirement
提前退休;考虑提前退休 - approach/announce/enjoy your retirement
临近/宣布/享受退休
Old age 老年 - have/see/spend time with your grandchildren
有孙辈;与孙辈共度时光 - take up/pursue/develop a hobby
开始/追求/培养一种爱好 - get/receive/draw/collect/live on a pension
得到/提取/领取退休金;靠退休金生活 - approach/save for/die from old age
临近晚年;存钱养老;老死 - live to a ripe old age
高寿 - reach the grand old age of 102/23 (often ironic)
活到 102/23 岁高龄(常作反语) - be/become/be getting/be going senile (often ironic)
变得衰老(常作反语) - die (peacefully)/pass away in your sleep/after a brief illness
在睡梦中/患病不久(平静地)离开人世
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- early
- late
- reach
- during adolescence
- in adolescence
Word Originlate Middle English: from French, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescere ‘grow to maturity’, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’.