infancy / ˈɪn fən si /

💦中学词汇婴儿期幼儿期幼年时期幼儿时期

infancy 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural in·fan·cies.

  1. the state or period of being an infant; very early childhood, usually the period before being able to walk; babyhood.
  2. the corresponding period in the existence of anything; very early stage: Space science is in its infancy.
  3. infants collectively.
  4. Law. the period of life to the age of majority, 21 years at common law but now usually 18; minority; nonage.

infancy 近义词

n. 名词 noun

babyhood

更多infancy例句

  1. It’s easy to take for granted now that very few babies in rich countries die of disease in infancy, that most infectious diseases are treatable, and that there are vaccines available when we need them.
  2. In the large-scale structure of the universe, theorists see signs of an explosive growth spurt during the cosmos’s infancy.
  3. At first, when online ordering was in its infancy, these services were a boon.
  4. Lab-grown meat is still in its infancy, and lab-grown plant material is even more nascent.
  5. It is like watching someone rapidly rewind into infancy, decades of experience and knowledge eroding over the course of a final 10 years or so.
  6. There was no YouTube or social media; the Internet was in its infancy.
  7. The nuclear metamorphosized giant monster genre was in its infancy when Godzilla was first born.
  8. As for social mobility, Tocqueville wrote at a time when American industry was in its infancy.
  9. I was a young reporter in the city and covered this controversy in its infancy.
  10. However, Kuniak is hopeful for the future, stating this type of therapy is still “in its infancy.”
  11. By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!
  12. The period of infancy is fixed by law, and is therefore a conventional, yet needful regulation.
  13. In most states infancy ends at the age of twenty-one, though some states fix a younger period, eighteen for women.
  14. From our earliest infancy he inspired us, not so much with love as with respect and adoration.
  15. If nothing is done during infancy inaction operates generally as an affirmation.