baby, child, infant, youngster

名詞 infant:

1. a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
   同義詞：baby, babe

1. Infant mortality (ie The rate at which babies die) was 20 deaths per thousand live births in 1986.
   1986年的嬰兒死亡率為生育成活率的千分之二十。
2. Infant mortality is still very high in some developing countries.
   某些發(fā)展中國家的嬰兒死亡率仍然很高。
3. She gazed at the newborn infant and smiled.
   她望著這個(gè)初生的嬰兒笑了。
4. The information industry is an infant industry in our country.
   信息產(chǎn)業(yè)在我國是新興產(chǎn)業(yè)。
5. My sister's infant is very lovely.
   我姐姐的小嬰兒非?？蓯邸?/div>

in.fant

n.（名詞）
A child in the earliest period of life, especially before he or she can walk.
嬰兒，幼兒：處于生命早期階段的小孩，尤指他或她還不會走路之時(shí)
Law A person under the legal age of majority; a minor.
【法律】 未成年人：未達(dá)到法定年齡的人；未成年者
adj.（形容詞）
Of or being in infancy.
嬰兒期的：屬于或處在嬰兒期的
Intended for infants or young children.
供嬰兒使用的：為嬰兒或年齡很小的兒童設(shè)計(jì)的
Newly begun or formed:
初期的：剛剛開始的或新創(chuàng)建的：
例句：
an infant enterprise.
新興的企業(yè)

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old French enfant
源自 古法語 enfant
from Latin onf3ns onfant-
源自 拉丁語 onf3ns onfant-
from onf3ns [not able to speak, young]
源自 onf3ns [不會說話，年齡小]
in- [not] * see in-
in- [不] *參見 in-
f3ns [present participle of] f3ro [to speak] * see bh3- 2
f3ns [] f3ro的現(xiàn)在分詞 [說] *參見 bh3- 2

<注釋>Anyone who has ever responded to the cries of a howling infantmay find it difficult to believe the etymology of the wordinfant. The source of our word is the Latin wordonf3ns (stem form, or form to which inflections are added, onfant- ), meaning .a little child; strictly, one who does not yet speak..The noun is from the adjectiveonf3ns, meaning .not having the power of speech. and .newly born.and made up of the negative prefixin- and the present participle f3ns, .speaking,. of the verbf3ro, .to speak.. Latinonf3ns and its Old French descendant enfant could both be used to refer to a speaking child, and the earliest recorded use (around 384) of their Middle English descendantinfaunte, the ancestor of our word, is in the sense .child..This use gave rise to our legal sense ofinfant, .a minor,. thus reminding us of individuals who can be very talkative indeed.
只要是聽過嬰兒啼哭聲的人，就難以相信infant 的詞源是這樣來的： 這個(gè)詞的詞源是拉丁文infans （派生形式，即加了詞尾的變體， infant- )， 意思是.一個(gè)小孩子；嚴(yán)格地說，是指還不會說話的幼兒.。名詞是由形容詞infans 演化而來的， 它的意思是.不會說話的..新生的.，由反義前綴in 和現(xiàn)在分詞 fans .說話的.構(gòu)成的， 其動詞原形為fari 意思是.說話.。 拉丁字infans 及它的古法語派生字 enfant 都可以用來指會說話的幼兒； 它們的派生詞、我們這個(gè)字的鼻祖是中古英語字infaunte ，其最早的記載約在384年左右， 那時(shí)的意思是.兒童.。這樣，我們這個(gè)字的法定意義infant .未成年人.就出現(xiàn)了； 這使我們想起那些十分健談的人