Infant

(n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.

(n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor.

(n.) Same as Infante.

(a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

(a.) Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

(v. t.) To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general.

弗朗西丝编辑

• The first teeth of the infant are called the deciduous or _milk_ teeth, and are twenty in number--ten in each jaw. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• To see Dobbin holding the infant, and to hear Amelia's laugh of triumph as she watched him, would have done any man good who had a sense of humour. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I touch, with reverent finger, the actual spot where the infant Jesus lay, but I think--nothing. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• An infant becomes a man-, and is sometimes fat, sometimes lean, without any change in his identity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• She looked up rather astonished, and laid down the infant on its bed. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The Infant Prodigy performed wonders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Sat and smoked his pipe, and said the infant negroes were--what did he say the infant negroes were? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They came to Venice while he was an infant. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Said the infant negroes were little humbugs,' repeated Mrs. Weller. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He stood for a moment and looked at her, powerless and torn with pity, as a parent regards an infant in pain. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A monster, in the shape of a nurse to Colonel Parker's child, Louisa, took this opportunity to remain out with the infant the whole of the night! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Lord bless you, my dears, an infant, an infant! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Formerly she had been a light-hearted infant, fanciful, but gay and childish. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The poor wretch had lost his young wife and lovely infant by the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Perdita had permitted us to take Clara back with us to Windsor; and she and my two lovely infants were perpetual sources of interest and amusement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A whole brood of our infants have perished in a moment by a keen blast! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Human infants, on the other hand, can get along with physical incapacity just because of their social capacity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• So manly by day, yet all the while, such a crying of infants in the night. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He added something hardly worth repeating about infants dying almost as soon as they were born. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I believe, Mr. Moore, griefs and fears nursed in silence grow like Titan infants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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