'Do you call the search for gold puerile'?

“你认为寻找黄金是幼稚的” 吗？

Betton felt a rush of puerile joy at the suggestion.

贝顿对这个建议感到一阵幼稚的喜悦。

Don't be puerile. We have work to do.

别这么孩子气 我们还有事要做。

This attempt to divert the conversation was too puerile, and Mrs. Honeychurch resented it.

这种转移话题的企图太幼稚了，霍尼彻奇对此表示不满。

The Primum Ens Melissae at least offers a less puerile benefit than most magical secrets'.

大多数神奇的秘密相比， Primum Ens Melissae 至少提供了一个不那么幼稚的好处。

A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked—a tear of disappointment and impatience; ashamed of it, I wiped it away.

当我看的时候，一滴稚嫩的泪水模糊了我的眼睛——一滴失望和不耐烦的泪水；很惭愧，我把它擦掉了。

He seemed to be directing his attention to all sorts of silly, puerile points that had nothing to do with the case.

他似乎在把注意力放在各种本案无关的幼稚可笑点上。

I suspected I became slightly ridiculous around him – my laugh goofy, my jokes silly and puerile, my passion fierce and surprising even to myself.

我怀疑我在他身边变有点可笑——我的笑声傻乎乎的，我的笑话愚蠢而幼稚， 我的热情甚至连我自己都感到惊讶。

That mind which I esteemed so great and valiant, proves to be feeble, puerile, and grovelling, a slave to vulgar errors, and weaker than a Woman's'.

我认为如此伟大和勇敢的心灵， 被证明是软弱、幼稚和卑鄙的， 是庸俗错误的奴隶， 比女的心灵还要软弱。

I knew this question was coming, and felt it was important to intimate that my interest was less puerile than that of the tabloid reporters who had doorstepped him over the years.

我知道这个问题会被问到，所以我觉有要暗示我的兴趣不在于像多年来那些小报记者那样幼稚地纠缠他。

For we, the faculty of economists, prove to have been guilty of presumptuous error in treating as a puerile obsession what for centuries has been a prime object of practical statecraft.

事实证明，我们这些经济学家犯了一个自以为是的错误，将几个世纪以来一直是实用治国方略的主要目标视为一种幼稚的痴迷。

These terrors are puerile and groundless: Combat them, holy Sister; I have promised to guard you from the Rioters, but against the attacks of superstition you must depend for protection upon yourself.

这些恐惧是幼稚而毫无根据的：他们战斗吧，圣洁的姐妹；我已经答应保护你免受暴乱者的侵害，但为了抵御迷信的攻击，你须依靠自己来保护自己。

He began spontaneously to consider whether it would be possible to carry out that puerile notion of Rosamond's which had often made him angry, namely, that they should quit Middlemarch without seeing anything beyond that preface.

他开始自发地考虑是否有可能实现罗莎蒙德的幼稚想法，这个想法常常使他生气，即他们应该在除了序言之外看不到任何东西的情况下退出米德尔马契。

But vain is the scrupulosity of ignorance, for neither religion nor virtue, when they reside in the heart, require such a puerile attention to mere ceremonies, because the behaviour must, upon the whole be proper, when the motive is pure.

但是无知的谨慎是徒劳的，因为宗教和美德，当它们存在于心中时，都不需要如此幼稚地关注纯粹的仪式，因为当动机纯洁时，行为总的来说须是适当的。