英汉词典

child 基本解释

• n. 儿童，小孩，孩子；产物；子孙；幼稚的人；弟子
• n. （英）蔡尔德（人名）

child 词态变化

child 中文词源

来自PIE*gel, 膨胀，子宫。词源同calf, dolphin. 字面意思即刚出生的婴儿。

child 英文词源

child

child: [OE] For a word of so central importance, child is surprisingly isolated, having no known living relatives in other Germanic languages. Its prehistoric Germanic ancestor has been reconstructed as *kiltham, which some have linked with Gothic kilthei ‘womb’ and even with Sanskrit jathara ‘belly’. The plural children is not an original feature; it developed in the 12th century. In earliest Old English times the plural was unchanged, like sheep.

child (n.)

Old English cild "fetus, infant, unborn or newly born person," from Proto-Germanic *kiltham (cognates: Gothic kilþei "womb," inkilþo "pregnant;" Danish kuld "children of the same marriage;" Old Swedish kulder "litter;" Old English cildhama "womb," lit. "child-home"); no certain cognates outside Germanic. "App[arently] originally always used in relation to the mother as the 'fruit of the womb'" [Buck]. Also in late Old English, "a youth of gentle birth" (archaic, usually written childe). In 16c.-17c. especially "girl child."

The wider sense "young person before the onset of puberty" developed in late Old English. Phrase with child "pregnant" (late 12c.) retains the original sense. The sense extension from "infant" to "child" also is found in French enfant, Latin infans. Meaning "one's own child; offspring of parents" is from late 12c. (the Old English word was bearn; see bairn). Figurative use from late 14c. Most Indo-European languages use the same word for "a child" and "one's child," though there are exceptions (such as Latin liberi/pueri).

The difficulty with the plural began in Old English, where the nominative plural was at first cild, identical with the singular, then c.975 a plural form cildru (genitive cildra) arose, probably for clarity's sake, only to be re-pluraled late 12c. as children, which is thus a double plural. Middle English plural cildre survives in Lancashire dialect childer and in Childermas.

Child abuse is attested by 1963; child-molester from 1950. Child care is from 1915. Child's play, figurative of something easy, is in Chaucer (late 14c.).

child 词组搭配

child 英文释义

1. a young person of either sex;

"she writes books for children"

"they're just kids"

"`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"

2. a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age;

"they had three children"

"they were able to send their kids to college"

3. an immature childish person;

"he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"

"stop being a baby!"

4. a member of a clan or tribe;

"the children of Israel"

child 同义词解析

baby, child, infant, youngster

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。

child 双语例句

1. His house was the only settled home I had as a child.

他的房子是我儿时唯一固定的家。

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2. The child kept her eyes fixed on the wall behind him.

这个小女孩眼睛一直紧盯着他身后的那堵墙。

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3. Don't leave a child alone in a room with an open fire.

房间里有裸露的明火时，不要让孩子独处其中。

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4. If we had a child, we'd be in really dire straits.

假如我们有了小孩，我们会真正陷入困境。

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5. If your child's temperature rises, sponge her down gently with tepid water.

如果你孩子的体温上升，就用海绵蘸上温水轻轻地擦拭她的身体。

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child 实用场景例句

a child of the 90s

90年代的人

牛津词典

They can't have children .

他们不能生孩子。

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a support group for adult children of alcoholics

帮助酗酒者成年子女的小组

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a child of three/a three-year-old child

三岁小孩

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men, women and children

男人、女人及儿童

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an unborn child

胎儿

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not suitable for young children

不适于幼儿

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I lived in London as a child.

我小时候住在伦敦。

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a child star

童星

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They have three grown-up children.

他们有三个成年的孩子。

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When I was a child I lived in a country village...

我小时候生活在一个小乡村里。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He's just a child.

他还只是个孩子。

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How are the children?...

孩子们都好吧？

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His children have left home...

他的子女都已离家独立生活了。

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Even a child knows all this.

这种事连小孩都知道.

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The child is hugging her doll.

孩子紧抱着她的洋娃娃.

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The car ran over the child, but by a miracle, he was unhurt.

汽车压着了这个小孩, 但他却没有受伤,真是奇迹.

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Her child is her greatest care.

她的孩子是她最关心的事.

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Has the child rallied from her high fever yet?

这个女孩的高烧退了 吗 ?

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He plunged into the water to save the child.

他跳入水中救小孩.

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That child! Whatever you said, he simply wouldn't listen.

这孩子, 饶怎么说他也不听.

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When his father refused to let him have his own way, the child played his trump card by crying.

看到爸爸没有如自己的意, 那孩子便使出绝招,哇的一声哭了起来.

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Stop pulling him about like that; he's a child after all.

别那样折腾他了, 他毕竟还是个孩子.

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