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Infancy Development Word N Uncount 不可数名词   [Usu Poss N

英语单词 infancy
英美音标 ['infənsi]
中文释义 n.幼年
vocab简明 Infancy is the earliest part of a person's life, when they're a baby. It's extremely rare for anyone to remember their own infancy.
vocab扩展 An amazing amount of growth and development happens during infancy: babies learn to crawl, laugh, and communicate, among many other things. Infancy is vaguely defined, usually including the time from birth to about one year old. You can also use the word to mean "the very beginning of something," so if your lemonade stand is brand new, it's still in its infancy. The word comes from the Latin infantia, "early childhood," and literally, "inability to speak."
真题原句 Works of several historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nation’s early leaders and the fragile nature of the country’s infancy.
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]婴儿期;幼年 Infancy is the period of your life when you are a very young child.
  [usu poss N]
  • ...minute details of Deborah's infancy.

    德博拉幼年生活的详尽细节

  • ...the development of the mind from infancy onwards.

    从婴儿期开始的心智发展

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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]初期;初创阶段 If something is in its infancy, it is new and has not developed very much.
  [usu in poss N]
  • Computing science was still in its infancy.

    计算科学仍然处于初期阶段。

来源 2008.4

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