英:['mæntʃaɪld]
美:['mænˌtʃaɪld]
英:['mæntʃaɪld]
美:['mænˌtʃaɪld]
noun
a male child : son
… it came to her what a glory it would be to be the mother of a man-child like this.—Jack London
a man who has the qualities of a child : a childlike man
… a largely likable tale about a 38-year-old man-child trying finally to grow up.—Manohla Dargis
noun
a male child : son
… it came to her what a glory it would be to be the mother of a man-child like this.—Jack London
a man who has the qualities of a child : a childlike man
… a largely likable tale about a 38-year-old man-child trying finally to grow up.—Manohla Dargis
The first known use of man-child was in the 14th century
1 In the classic 1960 movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring a twittering, stammering Anthony Perkins, Norman is a psychotic, murderer man-child zealously guarding a secret: he’s murdered his mother and stashed her mummified corpse in the basement.
2 Whether in the interview scenes or in the flashbacks, his hushed intensity suggests a fractured man-child who was never properly socialized.
3 Paul Reubens | Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Reubens, an actor and comedian who was best known for his beloved man-child character Pee-wee Herman but also appeared in numerous other film and TV projects, died July 30.
4 Sandler played the titular role of a man-child repeating grades one through 12.
5 Playing the disconnected man-child still married to a woman who preyed upon him as a seventh-grader, Melton tinged his character’s agony with a heartbreaking sadness that lingered long after the film ended.
6 The biggest difference between the movies and the latest project is that the latter picks up two decades earlier, in 1993, and finds Ted’s human bestie John Bennett not as a middle-aged man-child played by Mark Wahlberg but as a 16-year-old boy played by Max Burkholder.
7 Lakis plays Miranda, Daniel’s estranged wife, who has grown weary of his man-child antics.
8 Just when this man-child is ready to take responsibility, his actual child has zero interest in being parented.
9 The man came at the boy with a stick.
那人拿著一根棍子向男孩扑过去。
10 That man behaves like an overgrown child.
那男子一举一动像个大男孩。
11 This resurrection will be their delivery as the man - child.
这个复活就是他们生为男孩子.
12 He came into this preseason looking like a man - child - I could hardly recognize him at first.
他回来了,像个男孩 -- 起初我几乎认不出他来.