幼少

Meanings

1. Noun, Na-adjective, No-adjective

   infancy; childhood; tender age

• 私わたしは、幼少ようしょう時代じだい、玩具おもちゃという物ものを持もった覚おぼえがない。

  I don't remember having had any toys when I was young.

• 彼かれのマナーが悪わるいのは幼少ようしょう時代じだいのしつけが足たりなかったせいだと彼かれらは考かんがえた。

  They attributed his bad manners to lack of training in childhood.

• 幼少ようしょうの時とき、父ちちが死しんで、その弟おとうとが、時代じだいの衰勢すいせいと、自分じぶんの怠惰たいだとから、すっかり、身代しんだいをつぶしてしまったらしく、後のちに、筆墨ひつぼく行商人ぎょうしょうにんになって、私わたしの家いえへ、よく来きたが、くると、母ははに叱しかられて、よわっていた。

  When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.