Infancy

(noun.) the earliest state of immaturity.

(noun.) the early stage of growth or development.

詹妮整理

• There is plenty of room yet; for my colony, in spite of its forty years, is only yet in its infancy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• These men had been taught from infancy to revere, almost to worship, the holy places whereon their happy eyes were resting now. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• From my infancy I was passionately fond of reading, and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the purchasing of books. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That was the cot of _my_ infancy; an old egg-box. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• You well know, Victor, that our union had been the favourite plan of your parents ever since our infancy. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Why talk of infancy, manhood, and old age? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Are the changes of our body from infancy to old age more regular and certain than those of our mind and conduct? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Thus topples to earth another idol of my infancy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Think you, amidst the shrieks of violated innocence and helpless infancy, I did not feel in every nerve the cry of a fellow being? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• From their infancy, they have been intended for each other. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• So if it were not for adult language, we should not be able to see the import of the babbling impulses of infancy. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The animals were in the direct line of his path, but that the child thought little of; he had played round the fetlocks of horses from his infancy. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is yet only in its infancy, and needs a wise ruler to carry it on to ripe fruition. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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