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 infant ['ɪnfənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 婴儿, 儿童, 初学者

a. 婴儿的, 幼稚的

[医] 婴儿




    infant
    [ noun ]
    a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
    <noun.person>
    the baby began to cry againshe held the baby in her arms
    it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different


    Infant \In"fant\, n. [L. infans; pref. in- not + fari to speak:
    cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See {Fame}, and cf.
    {Infante}, {Infanta}.]
    1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his
    birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of
    age.

    And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. --C.
    Pitt.

    2. (Law) 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.

    Note: An infant under seven years of age is not penally
    responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age,
    he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be
    proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his
    twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant
    has no capacity to contract.

    3. Same as {Infante}. [Obs.] --Spenser.


    Infant \In"fant\, a.
    1. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life;
    tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

    2. Intended for young children; as, an infant school.


    Infant \In"fant\, v. t. [Cf. F. enfanter.]
    To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in
    general. [Obs.]

    This worthy motto, ``No bishop, no king,'' is . . .
    infanted out of the same fears. --Milton.

    1. State regulators are said to be investigating a doctor who speeded up delivery of a baby, plopped the infant into a Christmas stocking and dashed to a TV studio next door to display her as the county's first newborn of the '90s.
    2. An infant nursed by a mother who regularly consumed Lake Michigan fish would be exposed to 6.2 milligrams of PCB by the end of 12 months, Swain said.
    3. A passenger flying roundtrip between Baltimore and Los Angeles at full fare could have to pay up to $1,246 on a heavily booked flight to guarantee a seat for an infant.
    4. We'll end up at No. 1 for basketball players to see, or at No. 5 at infant height," he says.
    5. Three of the tornado victims, a couple and their infant son, died when their mobile home in Scott was battered by the last of the tornadoes to hit the state, authorities said.
    6. It proposes $171 million to fight infant mortality in 10 cities, and a 19% increase in immunization services to $258 million.
    7. "This should be done for the sake of our future, to avoid having a situation when infant mortality its twice that of any civilized country," Yeltsin said.
    8. Here is a rundown of the five areas of women's status and the findings of the study: _Health: This category included infant and child mortality, mortality of women in their childbearing years and life expectancy.
    9. Authorities in this District of Columbia suburb say they found 54 children, some in infant car seats and some on benches, in the home of a woman running an unlicensed day care center.
    10. Richard Curd, spokesman for Carnation Nutritional Products in Los Angeles, said that the company plans an information campaign that will alert the public to the problem of infant formula allergies.
    11. Mr. Dalal was an infant the last time the city was sacked, in 1948.
    12. "Twelve infants were sufficient to show us this is not a feasible technique or solution" to the infant organ shortage, said Dr. Joyce Peabody, Loma Linda's chief of neonatology.
    13. The U.S. Army mess sergeant rolled up the sleeve of his jungle fatigues, squirted a few drops of milk near the American flag tattooed on his brawny arm and handed the bottle to the bawling East German infant.
    14. "The infant appears comfortable and is showing signs of brain-stem death," Ms. Rockwell said.
    15. A woman who gave birth in an airplane bathroom and stuffed the infant in a wastebasket won't go to jail until December because she is expecting another baby soon, officials said.
    16. The infant, whose body was found in a trash can on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River on May 3, was buried in nearby Woodland Hills Cemetery.
    17. One manufacturer of infant pillows and cushions the government said was involved in the suffocation of 10 babies in two years said Wednesday that it voluntarily removed its product from stores earlier this year.
    18. The new surgery would remove one lobe of a healthy person's liver and transplant it into an infant.
    19. In 1987, the last year for which data is available, the overall infant mortality rate for the United States was 10.1 deaths in the first year of life for every 1,000 births.
    20. The princess was buried, as she wished, beside her husband and an infant son on a hillside in the royal burial grounds east of Seoul, surrounded by the rice paddies and trees of her adopted land.
    21. Michelle Madowsky, 17, the mother of the infant, was in serious condition at the Ohio State University Hospital burn unit, hospital spokesman David Crawford said.
    22. The infant was released into the custody of his grandmother.
    23. The state and Gerald Gaull, who developed the formula as director of pediatric research at an institute currently operated by a state agency, had alleged that the companies violated the patent by marketing synthetic infant formulas fortified with taurine.
    24. In the infant formula market, Abbott Laboratories has a 48% share; Bristol-Myers, a 35% share; and American Home Products Corp., 10%.
    25. The machines, designed to be used in the homes of high-risk babies, are supposed to sound an alarm when an infant stops breathing, or if the monitor detects irregular heart rate or respiration.
    26. An Abbott spokeswoman said yesterday that the company has no plans to change the way it markets infant formula.
    27. The infant was in serious but stable condition Monday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
    28. Mali, one of Africa's 10 poorest countries with a per capita income of $210 per year, has the second-highest infant mortality rate in the world.
    29. President Fidel Castro cites the lowered infant mortality rate, saying that if not for the revolution, 300,000 Cubans would not be alive today.
    30. For a while, he was held in protective care after his emotionally troubled mother was observed throwing Maurice into his crib during the infant's hospitalization.
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