- [only before noun] (formal or
law )法律 relating to young people who are not yet adults 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?
- (formal)
relating to young birds and animals 少年 the prey of juvenile owls 幼年猫头鹰的猎物
- (disapproving)
silly and more typical of a child than an adult synonym childish幼稚的;不成熟的;孩子气的
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin juvenilis, from juvenis ‘young, a young person’.