1. Each teenager is expected to cover his or her own expenses for articles for personal use, entertainment, long-distance telephone calls and clothing. 每个孩子的个人用品、娱乐、长途电话及衣服都得自己掏钱。
2. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain----that I was a new boy in a huge school. 我十几岁时,总感到自己年轻,有些事拿不准 -- 我是一所大学里的一名新生,
3. The eleven-year-old girl who dresses like a college student and the forty-year-old woman who dresses like a teenager are saying something through what they wear. 一个十一岁的小姑娘穿得像个大学生,或是一个四十岁的女人穿得像个十几岁的少女,他们都在通过自己的穿着表达着什么。
4. Mattel refashioned the doll into a decent, all-American — although with an exaggerated breast size — version and named it after Barbara, who was then a teenager. 马特尔公司将这个娃娃作了一番改造,变成了体面而地道的美国货,尽管胸围有些夸张。它名从当时10多岁的少女芭芭拉。