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核心畫面

You can picture child as a young human being who has not yet grown up — small, still developing, looked after by adults. Almost every other use grows from this one picture: either by relationship (someone's offspring), or by metaphor (someone shaped or behaving like a young one).

可以想成一個還沒長大的小人：個子小、還在成長、需要大人照顧。child 幾乎所有其他用法都是從這張畫面長出來的——有…更多收起可以想成一個還沒長大的小人：個子小、還在成長、需要大人照顧。child 幾乎所有其他用法都是從這張畫面長出來的——有的順著「親子關係」走（某人生的孩子），有的順著比喻走（被某種東西塑造、或行為像小孩的人）。

原始詞典資料14 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Childname

  • 1

    A surname.

childnoun詞源 1/tʃaɪld/

  • 1

    A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

    • Go easy on him: he is but a child.
    • Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task.
  • 2

    A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

  • 3

    One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.

    • My youngest child is forty-three this year.
    • His adult children visit him yearly.
  • 4

    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe thirteenth Lenormand card.

  • 5

    A figurative offspring

    • the children of Israel
    • He is a child of his times.
  • 6

    A figurative offspring

    • Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war.
  • 7

    computingengineeringmathematicsA figurative offspring

    • The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
    • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsA subordinate node of a tree.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.

    • My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.
  • 10

    obsoleteA female child, a girl.

    • A boy, or a Childe I wonder?

childverb詞源 2/tʃaɪld/

  • 1

    archaicTo give birth; to beget or procreate.

    • My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
    • And from his fertill hollow wombe forth ran, (Clad in rare weedes and ſtrange habiliment) A Nymph, for age able to goe to man, An hundreth plants beſide (euen in his ſight) Childed an hundreth Nymphes, ſo great, ſo dight:[…]

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。