junior
gb/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/ us/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
B1
英语
~ 2900
义项
0 个义项
adjective
B1
property
1
Lower in position or importance
Lower in position or importance than someone else.
用法模式：
[someone] is junior to [someone]
常见错误：
Learners sometimes confuse 'junior' with 'younger' when talking about rank; 'junior' refers to position, not always age.
近义词
subordinate (More formal and often used in business or military contexts.)
反义词
senior (Refers to someone with higher rank, position, or status.)
搭配
junior employee
|junior partner
|junior officer
|junior member
主题
work
|education
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
例句
- She is junior to him in the company hierarchy.
- As a junior partner, he has less decision-making power.
- In the military, a junior officer follows orders from higher ranks.
- The junior staff are usually given simpler tasks.
- He started as a junior analyst and worked his way up.
学习者例句
- I am junior to my boss.
- She is a junior member of the team.
- He is a junior officer in the army.
- This job is for junior workers.
- We have many junior staff here.
adjective
B2
property
2
Younger than another person
Younger than someone else, often in a family.
用法模式：
[someone] is junior to [someone] by [time period]
常见错误：
Learners may overuse 'junior' instead of simply saying 'younger'. In casual speech, 'younger' is more common.
近义词
younger (A more general word for less age.)
反义词
elder (Refers to someone older in age, especially in family contexts.)
搭配
junior sibling
|junior colleague
主题
family
|relationships
|core_vocabulary
例句
- He is three years junior to me.
- My brother is junior to me by two years.
- She is the junior sibling in the family.
- He married a woman ten years his junior.
学习者例句
- I am two years junior to her.
- My sister is junior to me.
- He is my junior brother.
- She married someone five years her junior.
名词
B1
entity
3
Third-year student in high school or college
A student in the third year of high school or college (in the U.S.).
常见错误：
Learners may confuse 'junior' with 'freshman' or 'sophomore'. The order is freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.
近义词
third-year student (A neutral descriptive term without regional specificity.)
反义词
senior (A student in their final year of study.)
搭配
high school junior
|college junior
主题
education
|core_vocabulary
例句
- She’s a junior at Boston University.
- My son is a high school junior this year.
- Juniors can start applying for internships.
- As a junior, he took advanced classes.
学习者例句
- I am a junior in college.
- She is a high school junior.
- He became a junior last year.
- Many juniors take part-time jobs.
名词
B1
entity
4
Person with lower position or rank
A person with a lower position than others at work or school.
近义词
subordinate (More formal and often used in official contexts.)
反义词
senior (A person with higher rank or status.)
搭配
train juniors
|mentor juniors
主题
work
|hierarchy
|business
|core_vocabulary
例句
- The seniors help train the juniors.
- She mentors juniors in the law firm.
- As a manager, you must guide your juniors.
- Juniors are expected to learn from seniors.
学习者例句
- I help new juniors at work.
- Juniors learn from seniors.
- She trains juniors at the office.
- We have ten juniors in our team.
suffix
B2
relation
5
'Jr.' after a son's name with same name as father
'Junior' after a name shows the man has the same name as his father and is younger.
常见错误：
Learners may incorrectly use 'junior' without understanding it only applies when names are identical between parent and child.
近义词
Jr. (The abbreviated form commonly used in writing.)
主题
names
|relationships
|communication
|core_vocabulary
例句
- Martin Luther King Junior was a civil rights leader.
- His name is John Smith Junior, after his father.
- The award went to Robert Downey Junior.
学习者例句
- My name is Paul Adams Junior.
- He is called James Brown Junior.
- His son is Michael Johnson Junior.
语法
词典原形
junior
IPA
GB/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
US/d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
音节与重音
ju - ni - or （3 个音节）
Stress on 1st syllable (ju)
词形变化
Adjective
- Base: junior
Noun
- Base: junior
- Plural: juniors
词族
Forms
juniors
noun
Negative and opposite forms
senior
adjective B1
相关表达
be someone's junior
1/bˈi sˈʌmwˌʌnz d͡ʒˈunjɚ/
fixed phrase
Be lower in rank or younger than someone else
To have a lower position or be younger than another person.
例句
- She is my junior by two years at work.
- He is my junior by three ranks in the army.
junior high school
1/d͡ʒˈunjɚ hˈaɪ skˈul/
fixed phrase
School between elementary and high school
A school for students between elementary and high school, usually grades 7–9 in the U.S.
例句
- She teaches math at a junior high school.
- I met him when we were both in junior high school.