puerility

• n. 天真，幼稚；孩子气，未成熟

1. the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

2. a property characteristic of a child

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

她的谈吐非常奇特,总是那么既大胆放肆同时又天真无邪.

辞典例句

来自puerile,孩子气的。

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

她的谈吐非常奇特,总是那么既大胆放肆同时又天真无邪.

来自辞典例句

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

天真是一种没有欲望的状态.

来自互联网

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.)).