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单词 infant
释义
infant
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.fənt/us
/ˈɪn.fənt/

infantnoun(YOUNG CHILD)

C2[C]
ababyor a veryyoungchild:
婴儿
anewborninfant新生儿
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
a baby
  • babyShe is having a baby in the spring.
  • newbornNewborn babies are not able to focus their eyes fully for the first few weeks of life.
  • new babyBringing home a new baby can be a confusing time for parents.
  • bundle of joyCongratulations on bringing home your little bundle of joy!
  • neonateThe doctor headed up a study on perception in neonates.
  • infantInfants under 2 years of age must travel on an adult's lap.
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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
a child
  • childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever.
  • boyThere's a new boy in my class.
  • girlThe girl's name is Sally.
  • kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school.
  • kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair.
  • little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now.
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  • She has fivechildren, theyoungestof whom is still an infant.
  • He was veryunwellas an infant, and was notexpectedtoliveintoadulthood.
  • Separated from hismotherwhen he was just an infant, theboygrewup in a children'shome.
  • She isn'tabletolookafter herself at all - she's ashelplessas an infant.
  • I'll give you thisbooklettoread, which givesadviceaboutfeedinginfants of under fourmonths.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Children & babies
  • ankle-biter
  • arrival
  • babe
  • babe in arms
  • baby
  • comfort blanket
  • crawler
  • designer baby
  • devil
  • diddums
  • oops-a-daisy
  • pacifier
  • papoose
  • perisher
  • pest
  • toddler
  • toilet-trained
  • tomboy
  • tot
  • tyke
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infantnoun(SCHOOL)

[C]UK
astudentat an infantschool:
幼儿学校的学生
Jenny is a top-year infant now.珍妮现在是一所幼儿学校的大班生。
the infants[plural]UK
→infant school:
幼儿学校（同 infant school）
Andrew's stillinthe infants.安德鲁还在上幼儿学校。
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Students & pupils
  • -grader
  • alumna
  • alumnus
  • attrition
  • batch
  • batchmate
  • entrant
  • graduate
  • homeschooler
  • houseman
  • intern
  • internship
  • learner
  • pupil
  • school-leaver
  • schoolboy
  • schoolchild
  • schoolgirl
  • schoolmate
  • theologian
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Types of school
infant
adjective
UK
uk
/ˈɪn.fənt/us
/ˈɪn.fənt/
relatedto orconnectedwith the firststageofschoolin the UK, forchildrenagedfour to sevenyears:
学前班的，幼儿的
an infantteacher/class幼师／学前班
See also
junior school
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Schools in general
  • assembly
  • bailey
  • blackboard
  • blackboard jungle
  • breaksomethingup
  • bursar
  • classroom
  • fag
  • jolly hockey sticksidiom
  • language laboratory
  • letsomeone/somethingout
  • long vacation
  • matron
  • midterm
  • pass
  • reception
  • seat
  • sixth form
  • staffroom
  • year
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(Definition ofinfantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

infant| American Dictionary

infant
noun[C]
us
/ˈɪn·fənt/
ababy
(Definition ofinfantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinfant

infant
To understand what causes development in infants, we must be able to link the emerging behaviour to the unfolding of the underlying biological structures.
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No attempt to break infant's fixation on the correct well or to prevent position cueing.
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First, recent developmental research provides some insights into the process of acquisition of reach in infants.
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However, the proportion of such infants varies from 32% to 61% depending on the criteria used to define their hand-use preference.
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The infants are actually assigning the sounds of speech to categories that have or will come to have linguistic significance.
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I first describe evidence from the perception of speech by infants during the first year of life.
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Another 39 infants made up the control group.
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However, this speech register is not limited to use with infants, for whom these attentional biases have been demonstrated.
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The results of this first experiment demonstrate that there were no observed differences in discrimination between the monolingual and bilingual infants.
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The literature on the phonetic development of infants being raised in bilingual environments is generally sparse.
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In their study, 4-month-old infants did not distinguish between coincident and noncoincident speech.
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In particular, very few adult ages are given during the 1730s and 1740s, in contrast to the burials of infants and children.
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Our initial attempt at venous access is via the umbilical vein in infants presenting in the first week of life.
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An associated congenital noncardiac anomaly was identified in 5 patients (3 first seen as infants).
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Symptoms, such as congestive heart failure and cyanosis are more frequently observed in infants than in children, and arrhythmias are less frequent during childhood.
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Collocationswithinfant

infant

These are words often used in combination withinfant.

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full-term infants
They compared preterm and full-term infants on measures of maternal depression, infant health characteristics, and attachment security at 1 year postterm.
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healthy infant
At some point in the first year of life, it becomes clear that thehealthyinfanthas a mind of his or her own.
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infant baptism
Entry is a function of heredity, viainfantbaptism.
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