childhood

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/ˈt͡ʃaɪldhʊd/

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the time when you are a child

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Her childhood was filled with long summer afternoons reading by the river.

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意味（1）

(chiefly uncountable) The state of being a child.

To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.

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意味（2）

The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.

He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.

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意味（3）

(by extension) The early stages of development of something.

the childhood of our joy

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childhoods （ 複数形 ）