- 1nA2
/ˈskuːltʃaɪld/
A child who goes to school. It is used for boys and girls who are old enough for school, and very often for a group of them rather than one.
學童
複數 schoolchildren
核心畫面
Think of the word as two plain pieces glued together: school + child. It points at a child seen in their school role — old enough to be in class, usually pictured as part of a crowd in uniform, streaming out of the gate at four o'clock rather than as one particular kid you know by name.
可以想成這個字就是 school + child 兩塊直接黏起來：一個「在上學這個身分裡」的小孩。畫面比較像放學鐘響…更多收起
可以想成這個字就是 school + child 兩塊直接黏起來：一個「在上學這個身分裡」的小孩。畫面比較像放學鐘響、一群穿制服的孩子從校門湧出來的那種群像，而不是你叫得出名字的某一個小朋友——所以它常以複數 schoolchildren 出現，用來講一整批學齡兒童。原始詞典資料1 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。
schoolchildnoun/ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/
- 1
A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- […] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.
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。