- (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。
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesc1Marjorie 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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- young
- month-old
- two-month-old
- …
- breastfeed
- feed
- nurse
- …
- death
- mortality
- child
- …
- sudden infant death syndrome
(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。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French enfant, from Latin infant- ‘unable to speak’, from in- ‘not’ + fant- ‘speaking’ (from the verb fari).