英:['nɒnɪdʒ]
美:['nɒnɪdʒ]
英:['nɒnɪdʒ]
美:['nɒnɪdʒ]
青年时期;早期;未成熟;未成年
non·age
no nihj
noun
minority sense 4
a period of youth
lack of maturity
"14世纪末,指儿童时期、未成年状态、法定幼年期,源自盎格鲁-法语 nounage(14世纪早期),古法语 nonaage,由 non-(见 non-)和 age(见 age(n.))组成。比喻用法始于1580年代。
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from non- + age age
The first known use of nonage was in the 15th century
1 To every competent human judgment, as soon as it is out of its nonage, and barring individual disqualifications of property or accident, this human nature attests itself.
2 Though in my nonage I have seen A world of taking faces, I had not age or wit to ken Their several hidden graces.
3 And can expound it too: But Christian faith was in the nonage then, And Roman heathens lorded o'er the world.
4 When I add that in 1885 we had only 40 members, you will be able to form a sufficient notion of the Fabian Society in its nonage.
5 It recalled an ideal feminine head much looked at in my nonage.
6 I could see no reason for a nom de plume in the case of "Gretchen" or the other novel of nonage; with the "Child of Misery" it was different.
7 As the land cannot be sold during their nonage he humbly begs that the land may be extended and prays that some allowance may be made for the education of the children.
8 So far back as 1227 advantage had been taken of Henry's majority to exact large sums of money for the confirmation of all charters sealed during his nonage.
9 Gherkins, chilli pastes, magenta relishes – the most whorish of condiments spilt their meretricious goo on to the pastas, roasts and bakes of my nonage.
10 England is no more in her dotage than America is in her nonage.
11 Kings in their dotage and princes in their nonage wooed her.
12 Thus we do not think Lord Byron was made for translating, during his nonage, "Adrian's Address to his Soul," when Pope succeeded so indifferently in the attempt.
13 He secured as the price of his ostentatious fidelity the custody of the Honour of Huntingdon, during the nonage of the earl, his nephew, John the Scot.
14 So far, we are in Sussex pure and simple; mangolds all around, cattle sheds in front, a Sussex farmer for a companion, the sky of Sussex over all, and the twentieth century in her nonage.
15 "How! a tutor, and at Rothsay's age!" exclaimed the' King; "he is two years beyond the space to which our laws limit the term of nonage."
16 Imitation and forgery, which are a kind of literary vulgarity, were the school of Romanticism in its nonage.
17 As I date from my nonage, I must have laid up no state secrets.
18 The "Moses" was long since finished, and was performed in several places; but the public has not proved alive to its merits, and it fares no better than did Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in its nonage.
19 Politics certainly played a great part in moulding Moore's feelings and imagination, and it should be observed that his nonage almost coincided with the duration of Ireland's independent Parliament.
20 We are all savages under our white skins; but you alone recall to us the delights and terrors of the world’s nonage.