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immature

adjective
🔊/ˌɪməˈtjʊə(r)/
🔊/ˌɪməˈtʃʊr/, 🔊/ˌɪməˈtʊr/
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  1. behaving in a way that is not sensible and is typical of people who are much younger（行为）不成熟的，不够老练的，幼稚的
    • immature behaviour不成熟的行为
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    • Although she was older than her husband, she was emotionally quite immature.尽管她比丈夫大，在情绪方面却不很成熟。
    • He displays very immature behaviour for a boy of 16, running about the classroom and yelling.他对一个16岁的男孩表现出非常不成熟的行为，在教室里跑来跑去大喊大叫。
    • Oh, don't be so immature.哦，别这么幼稚。
    Topics Personal qualitiesb2, Life stagesb2
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  2. not fully developed or grown未长成的；发育未全的
    • immature plants未长成的植物
    • The immature birds have shorter tails and brown, speckled plumage.发育未全的鸟尾巴较短，羽毛呈褐色，有斑点。
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    3. opposite mature
    Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘premature’, referring to death): from Latin immaturus ‘untimely, unripe’, from in- ‘not’ + maturus ‘ripe’.