infant是什么意思_infant怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk;"the baby began to cry again"
"she held the baby in her arms"
"it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"

中英词源

infant 婴儿

in-,不，非，-fan,说话，词源同phone,fame.即不能说话的，引申词义婴儿。

infant: infant: [14] Etymologically, an infant is ‘someone who cannot yet speak’. The word comes via Old French enfant from Latin infāns ‘young child’, a noun use of the adjective infāns, originally ‘unable to speak’, which was formed from the negative prefix in- and the present participle of fārī ‘speak’ (source of English fable, fame, fate, etc).

The somewhat improbable derivative infantry [16] comes via French from Italian infanteria; this was based on infante, whose original meaning ‘young person’ had shifted to ‘foot soldier’ (a development distantly reminiscent of the use of British English lads for ‘male members of a group, team, etc’).
=> fable, fame, fate
infant (n.): late 14c., "child during earliest period of life" (sometimes extended to age 7 and sometimes including a fetus), from Latin infantem (nominative infans) "young child, babe in arms," noun use of adjective meaning "not able to speak," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + fans, present participle of fari "to speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). As an adjective, 1580s, from the noun.

词态变化

复数 infants;

权威造句

1. The United States ranks 20th in its infant mortality rate.: 美国在婴儿死亡率方面排名第20。

2. There was an infant squalling in the back of the church.: 有个婴儿在教堂后部大声啼哭。

3. pioneering work on infant mortality: 婴儿死亡率方面的探索性研究工作

4. The operation on the new born infant was a failure.: 新生儿的手术失败了.

5. The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.: 这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿.

近反义词

baby

child

相似短语

infant food 婴儿食品

infant school 幼儿学校

stillborn infant phr. 死胎，流产儿

postterm infant 过期产儿，过熟儿

infant industry 新生工业

infant phenomenon 神童

infant asylum 【医】育婴院

mature infant 成熟儿

immature infant 未熟儿，不成熟儿

infant incubator 早产儿暖箱

单词分析

这些名词均有“孩子”之意。
baby日常用词，一般指从刚出生的婴儿到满两岁的或非常小的孩子，常含钟爱意味。
child普通用词，含义广，无感情色彩。泛指从胎儿、婴儿到10岁左右的儿童。
infant书面用词，狭义指出生后到两岁的小孩，广义指7岁以下的孩子；法律上则指未到法定年龄。
youngster泛指任何年龄的儿童或者少年，多指男孩，多为年长者的使用。

记忆方法

要想婴儿长得快，将他放在（in）饭（fan）桶（t）里。

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