callow
英 ['kæləʊ]
美 ['kælo]
- adj. 年轻而无经验的；羽毛未丰的
- n. (Callow)人名；(英)卡洛
助记提示
1. 与cub, calf同源，符合首辅音表词类含义的规则，由此引申出该词的含义。
2. 形近词：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
3. call + low, 叫声低的小鸟 > 未生羽毛的
4. Calvin (卡尔文、加尔文) => Latin calvus "bald" => callow.
5. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature.
双语例句
- 1. He was a callow youth when he joined the newspaper.
- 他进报社时还是个乳臭未干的小子.
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- 2. Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
- 你的庇护,它们就要战栗--就象/那羽翼未丰的小鸟给撇下在天空里.
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- 3. He was only a callow youth.
- 他只是个无经验的年轻人.
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- 4. Thin - walled cells of callow stirpe's cortex contain saliferous vacuoles, and pulp cells contain crystals. "
- 幼茎皮层薄壁细胞中含有含盐液泡泡, 髓细胞中含有晶体.
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- 5. I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I do not believe now.
- 在我年轻尚无经验时相信的许多事情,现在我不相信了.
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