- Some people like their movies to have sophisticated humor and others prefer the more puerile humor of pratfalls or jokes about smelly underwear, inappropriate belching, and passing gas.
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- adj. 幼稚的；孩子气的；未成熟的；天真的
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1. These discussions have always seemed a bit puerile to me.
对我而言，这些讨论总是显得有些幼稚。
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2. 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。
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3. In my overactive and puerile imagination, every crack of a branch was made by the ghost of some dead soldier.
我的想象力活跃而天真，在我看来树枝的每一声响动都来自死去士兵的亡灵。
- puerile (adj.) 1660s, "youthful, boyish," a back-formation from puerility, or else from French puéril (15c.), from Latin puerilis "boyish; childish," from puer "boy, child" (see puerility). Disparaging sense, "juvenile, immature," is from 1680s.
pu·er·ile / ˈpjʊəraɪl ; NAmE ˈpjʊrəl / adjective ( disapproving) silly; suitable for a child rather than an adult 愚蠢的；幼稚的；孩子气的 SYN childish pu·er·ile / ˈpjʊəraɪl ; NAmE ˈpjʊrəl /
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