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childhood

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child·hood /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/ ●●○ W3 noun [countableC, uncountableU]  
CHILDthe period of time when you are a child 童年，儿童时代
 I had a very happy childhood.
我的童年很快乐。
in/during/since (somebody’s) childhood
 Most infections occur in childhood.
大多数传染病发生在儿童时期。
 She had been writing poems since her childhood.
她童年时代就开始写诗了。
childhood home/friend/experience etc (=a home etc that you had when you were a child) 儿时的家/朋友/经历等
childhood memories (=the memories you have of your childhood) 童年的记忆
→ second childhood
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In everyday English, people usually say when I was a child when talking about their childhood: 在日常英语中，人们说到自己小时候时一般都说when I was a child
During my childhood we lived by the ocean. → When I was a child we lived by the ocean.
小时候，我们住在海边。 | She’s known him since childhood. → She’s known him since she was a child. 她从小就认识他。
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
happy/unhappy
Her parents divorced and her childhood was unhappy.
normal
I think my childhood was fairly normal.
lonely
He had no brothers or sisters and a lonely childhood.
a deprived childhood (=without enough money, food, attention etc)
Many children living in these areas have very deprived childhoods.
early/late childhood
Experiences in early childhood are very important.
verbs
have a happy/unhappy etc childhood
I wish I'd had a happy childhood like yours.
spend your childhood
This is the house where the artist spent most of his childhood.
remember something from (your) childhood
He remembered the place from his childhood.
childhood + NOUN
childhood memories
The smell in the air brought back happy childhood memories.
a childhood friend
He married his childhood friend.
somebody's childhood home
Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
a childhood experience
Our childhood experiences make us who we are.
a childhood illness/disease
measles and other common childhood illnesses
Examples from the Corpus
childhood• His early childhood was spent with his father in Chicago.• Much of my early childhood was spent with my aunt in California.• It all comes from a good childhood.• Nina had happy memories of her childhood on the farm.• The origins of Gironella's peculiar assemblages lie in his childhood.• Steven had happy memories of his childhood on the farm.• It was his childhood dream to play professional baseball.• There were no differences in the rates of complications after delivery or in childhood behavior problems.• Information on childhood history, family, peer and work experiences was obtained, as well as detailed information on current circumstances.• They've been buddies since childhood.• He says Ryan has been a tinkerer since childhood, endlessly curious about the way things work.• Since childhood Margot had longed to be a dancer.• The adults had retreated from this childhood world, but not very far.• Vince had a very unhappy childhood.• Of course, I had all the usual childhood illnesses, like measles and mumps.
in/during/since (somebody’s) childhood• I started therapy because of a lot of unresolved conflicts in my childhood.• There is a great deal of evidence which indicates that experiences in early childhood are very important, and that the effects are long-lasting.• This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.• His primary avocation was palaeontology, an interest he had lovingly nurtured since childhood.• Conventionally, maps and graphic aids are introduced into mobility work only in middle childhood, if at all.• He says Ryan has been a tinkerer since childhood, endlessly curious about the way things work.• Maybe Liam reminds him of something unhappy in his own childhood.
child·hood noun →REGISTER1 →n COLLOCATIONS1
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