infancy

英 ['ɪnfənsi] 美 ['ɪnfənsi]

• n. 婴儿期；幼年；初期
• [法律]未成年.

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 初期
2. 婴儿期
3. 未发达阶段
4. 【律】未成年

英英释义

Noun:

1. the early stage of growth or development

2. the earliest state of immaturity

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Children are in their infancy when they are babies.
   孩子们还是小宝宝时，是处于婴儿期。
2. Children treated during infancy or early childhood are at the highest risk.
   被治疗的孩子处于婴儿期或幼年时期是高度危险期。
3. I'm sure you have heard of his precarious infancy.
   我相信你们都曾听说过他多灾多难的幼年。
4. Tadpoles are the infancy form of frogs.
   蝌蚪是青蛙的幼年形态。
5. The industry was still in its infancy.
   这一产业当时仍处于发展初期。
6. We were all in our wartime infancy.
   我们大家都处于战争的初期阶段。

经典引文

• When tender infancy evinces needless terror at cow, or dog, or shaggy goat.

  出自： P. Thompson

• This move from prep school to public school was traditionally held to be a release from infancy.

  出自： N. Mosley

• There had been twins, but they had been born prematurely and had died in infancy.

  出自： M. Scammell

词汇搭配

• in one's infancy 在摇篮时代
• vomiting in infancy caused by fright 惊吐
• diencephal syndrome of infancy 间脑丘脑下部综合征...
• topographic infancy 幼年期
• diencephalic syndrome of early infancy 婴儿间脑综合征...
• infancy stage 婴儿期
• progressive cerebral degeneration of infancy 婴儿进行性大脑变性...

近反义词

【近义词】

• babyhood 婴儿时代
• beginning 开始
• childhood 童年
• youth 青年时期
• birth 分娩
• origin 起源
• minority 少数
• immaturity 不成熟
• early life 早期生活
• formative years 形成性格时期...
• early stages 初级阶段
• embryonic stage 胚期
• first phase 第一期的
• start 开始
• early childhood 儿童早期