infant
英['?nf(?)nt]
美['?nf?nt]
- n. 嬰兒；幼兒；未成年人
- adj. 嬰兒的；幼稚的；初期的；未成年的
- n. (Infant)人名；(英)因方特
詞態變化
復數:?infants;
助記提示
要想嬰兒長得快，將他放在（in）飯（fan）桶（t）里。
中文詞源
infant 嬰兒
in-,不，非，-fan,說話，詞源同phone,fame.即不能說話的，引申詞義嬰兒。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. The United States ranks 20th in its infant mortality rate.
- 美國在嬰兒死亡率方面排名第20。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. There was an infant squalling in the back of the church.
- 有個嬰兒在教堂后部大聲啼哭。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. pioneering work on infant mortality
- 嬰兒死亡率方面的探索性研究工作
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
- 新生兒的手術失敗了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.
- 這次撞車的惟一幸存者是一個嬰兒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》