childhood-children:这样才能拥有一颗童心
【造词理据】象形,C形模仿膨胀起来的子宫。child原指子宫的果实(fruit of the womb)。在古英语,child指未出生和新出生的婴儿,后来泛指儿童、小孩。
【例句】The child clung to his mother in the crowded department store.
这个小孩在拥挤的百货公司中紧抓着妈妈不放。
【同根词】相关词:bairn brain-child child-bearing childbed childbirth childe childermas childhood childish childless childlike child-proof children colt godchild grandchild infant kin love-child manchild
【造词理据】-ish是后缀。见child,这里指像小孩子一样幼稚的成年人,借指幼稚的、傻里傻气的。
【例句】I realized it was an unfair reaction, very childish; but I also saw that it was quitenatural.我意识到这是很不公平的想法,非常幼稚;可我也觉得这很自然。
【同根词】见child。
【造词理据】复合词,由child+like组成。表像孩子一样的(like a child),喻指天真无邪的。
【例句】So you could pick up once more childlike innocence without coming back to thechildhood, if we haven't got the Child Heart lost too long.
原来,人不必重回童年就可以重新拾起那颗童心,只要我们没把它遗失得太久。
【同根词】见child。
【造词理据】child的复数,指很多孩子。根据词根拼写变化规律,可以推测,-en是后缀,r是er的缩略,也是后缀。
【例句】Among children, too, there was no change in obesity rates except among the very heaviest boys, whose numbers increased slightly.
至于儿童,肥胖率在过去十年没有什么变化,除了极重男童的数量略有增加。
【同根词】见child。
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单词成就英语,英语照见未来