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infant

noun
 
🔊/ˈɪnfənt/
🔊/ˈɪnfənt/
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  1.  
    (formal or specialist) a baby or very young child婴儿；幼儿
    • a nursery for infants under two两岁以下婴幼儿的托儿所
    • their infant son他们幼小的儿子
    • She was seriously ill as an infant.她年幼时曾患重病。🔊🔊
    • Mozart was an infant prodigy (= a young child with unusual ability).莫扎特是个神童。🔊🔊
    In North American English infant is only used for a baby, especially a very young one.
    Extra Examples
    • Marjorie looked down at the sleeping infant in her arms.玛乔丽低头看了看怀里熟睡的婴儿。
    • a book on intellectual development in the human infant关于人类婴儿智力发育的书
    • countries with high infant mortality婴幼儿死亡率很高的国家
    • jaundice in premature infants早产儿的黄疸病
    • We studied newborn infants up to two months old.我们研究了出生两个月以内的新生儿。
    Topics Life stagesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • young
    • month-old
    • two-month-old
    • …
    verb + infant
    • breastfeed
    • feed
    • nurse
    • …
    infant + noun
    • death
    • mortality
    • child
    • …
    phrases
    • sudden infant death syndrome
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  2.  
    (in England and Wales英格兰和威尔士) a child at school between the ages of four and seven四岁到七岁之间的学童
    • an infant school幼儿学校
    • The majority of infant teachers are women.大多数幼儿教师是女性。
    • I've known her since we were in the infants (= at infant school).从幼儿学校时我就认识她了。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French enfant, from Latin infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant- ‘speaking’ (from the verb fari).
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infant

adjective
🔊/ˈɪnfənt/
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  1. designed to be used by infants供婴幼儿用的
    • infant formula (= milk for babies)婴儿配方奶粉
  2. new and not yet developed初期的；初创期的
    • infant industries新兴工业
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French enfant, from Latin infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant- ‘speaking’ (from the verb fari).