callow: [OE] Old English calu meant ‘bald’. Eventually, the word came to be applied to young birds which as yet had no feathers, and by the late 16th century it had been extended metaphorically to any young inexperienced person or creature. It probably came, via West Germanic *kalwaz, from Latin calvus ‘bald’. => calvary
callow (adj.)
Old English calu "bare, bald," from Proto-Germanic *kalwa- (cognates: Middle Dutch calu, Dutch kaal, Old High German kalo, German Kahl), from PIE root *gal- (1) "bald, naked" (cognates: Russian golyi "smooth, bald"). From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature (1570s). Apparently not related to Latin calvus "bald."
callow 英文释义
1. lacking experience of life;
"a callow youth of seventeen"
callow 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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callow 实用场景例句
a callow youth
乳臭未干的年轻人
牛津词典
...a callow youth.
涉世不深的毛头小子
柯林斯高阶英语词典
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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He was only a callow youth.
他只是个无经验的年轻人.
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I believed a lot of things in my callow youth that I do not believe now.
