infancy
noun[U]
uk/ˈɪn.fən.si/us/ˈɪn.fən.si/C2
thetimewhen someone is ababyor a veryyoungchild:
婴儿期,幼年Heryoungestchilddiedininfancy.她最小的孩子在幼年时夭折了。
childhood
- childhoodMy childhood was spent moving from place to place as my father was in the army.
- boyhoodHe remembered his boyhood as an idyllic period of his life.
- girlhoodNot since her girlhood had she felt so free and uninhibited.
- infancyMany more children used to die in infancy.
- youthAt 25, he felt his youth was already coming to an end.
be initsinfancy
C2
to be very new and stilldeveloping:
在初期,在早期Thesystemis still initsinfancy.这个体系尚处于初期发展阶段。
Stages of life
- adolescence
- adulthood
- age
- autumn
- autumn yearsidiom
- decline
- early years
- eventide
- formative
- generational
- Indian summer
- majority
- male menopause
- middle age
- middle-aged
- middlescence
- someone'sdeclining yearsidiom
- those were the daysidiom
- twilight yearsidiom
- youth
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