younger是什么意思？

younger

英[ˈjʌŋgə(r)] 美['jʌŋɡər]

• n. 年纪较小者；
• adj. 较年轻的，年幼的( young的比较级 )，有朝气的，年轻人的，青年的；

例句

• She was edged out of the semi-final by her younger rival. 较年轻的对手取代了她的位置进入半决赛。
• I often dreamed of my younger brother soon after I left home. 刚离开家时, 我常梦见弟弟。
• Careful make-up and styling can take years off you (=make you look much younger). 仔细化妆和头发造型能使人显得年轻。
• The older boys always picked on the younger ones. 大孩子总是招惹小的孩子。
• He’s had a good innings but now it’s time for him to retire and let someone younger take over as director. 他成功地当了多年主任，不过现在该退休了，让更年轻的人来接替。
• Taking exercise every day makes him look younger instead of older. 每天锻炼身体使他看起来年轻而不显老。
• She is cutting down her dress for her younger sister. 她正把自己的衣服改小, 准备给妹妹穿。
• The younger folks were in rapture. 年轻人个个欣喜若狂。
• The younger Williams is the top seed at Wimbledon. 小威廉姆斯是温布尔登网球公开赛的头号种子选手。
• She is older than me but my other sisters are younger. 她比我大, 其余都是我妹妹。

反义词

• n.
  younger的反义词之：较年少者
  elder,

英语四级真题

The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
psychiatrist (心理医生) at the University of California, San Diego, said older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping efficiently straight through the night
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were younger.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking, the tenure system often stifles(压制)them: younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues for tenure, encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.
出自-2011年12月听力原文
What accounts for the younger generation's political strength according to Professor Henry Flores
出自-2010年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  年幼的;幼小的;未成熟的
  A young person, animal, or plant has not lived or existed for very long and is not yet mature.
  例句
  In Scotland, young people can marry at 16... 在苏格兰，年轻人16岁就可以结婚。 You weren't so very young when she died; you were old enough to remember. 她去世的时候你不算太年幼，已经能记事了。
• ADJ-GRADED
  年轻时的;青年时代的
  You use young to describe a time when a person or thing was young.
  例句
  In her younger days my mother had been a successful fashionwear saleswoman. 我妈妈年轻时曾经是个成功的时装销售员。
• ADJ-GRADED
  （显得）年轻的;（显得）岁数不大的
  Someone who is young in appearance or behaviour looks or behaves as if they are young.
  例句
  I was twenty-three, I suppose, and young for my age... 我当时23岁，我想，看上去比实际年龄小。 He seemed to me very young and very lonely. 我觉得他似乎非常年轻，非常孤独。
• N-PLURAL
  幼兽;幼崽;幼禽
  The young of an animal are its babies.
  例句
  The hen may not be able to feed its young. 雌鸟可能无法给幼鸟喂食。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. younger brother or sister;
  "little brother"
  2. used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father;
  "John Junior""John Smith, Jr."