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infants

/in-fuhnt/US // ˈɪn fənt //UK // (ˈɪnfənt) //

婴儿,婴幼儿,婴孩,幼儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby.
    • : Law. a person who is not of full age, especially one who has not reached the age of 18 years; a minor.
    • : a beginner, as in experience or learning; novice: The new candidate is a political infant.
    • : anything in the first stage of existence or progress.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to infants or infancy: infant years.
    • : being in infancy: an infant king.
    • : being in the earliest stage: an infant industry.
    • : of or relating to the legal state of infancy; minor.

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Examples

  • Childcare for infants can cost on average up to $24,000 a year, which is just shy of half the national average family income.

  • Amnesty later discovered that even those 19 infants had died before the Iraqi invasion.

  • The 53 infants that had a one-month telemedicine visit continued to show no signs of the illness.

  • Puopolo is the lead author of AAP’s guidance, which now states that a baby is at low risk of infection when staying with the mother after delivery if she wears a mask and cleans hands before holding her infant.

  • As infants, we observe our parents and teachers, and from them we learn how to walk, talk, read—and use smartphones.

  • Within six days, however, the infant was admitted to a pediatric hospital with diarrhea, bluish skin, and respiratory failure.

  • By the 1950s the rapid assignment of gender to an ambiguously gendered infant had become standard.

  • Increased access to reproductive healthcare has resulted in better maternal and infant health outcomes.

  • Two bowls were set before the infant—one containing gold and jewels, the other hot coals.

  • An infant too young to have received his first round of shots gasps for air after having been infected with pertussis.

  • Soon after that, I wrote you in regard to the condition in which we found this infant Church and Colony.

  • And then Jolly Robin would feel ashamed that he had even thought of being so cruel to an infant bird, even if he was a Cowbird.

  • Two or three more infant deaths intervened before the birth of Marcella.

  • There was a picture of Madame Lebrun with Robert as a baby, seated in her lap, a round-faced infant with a fist in his mouth.

  • Seen in this light, infant mortality and the cruel wastage of disease were viewed with complacence.