| 词汇 | only-child |
| 释义 | only child noun[ C ] uk /ˌəʊn.li ˈtʃaɪld/ us /ˌoʊn.li ˈtʃaɪld/pluralonly children a child who has no sisters or brothers独生子（或女） Children & babies ankle-biter arrival babe babe in arms baby children comfort blanket crawler designer baby devil munchkin neonate new addition nipper oops-a-daisy teethe tiddler tike toddler toilet-trained But lots of recent studies show that only children are often happy and successful. Is it sad to be brought up as an only child, with no brothers and sisters to play with? only child | American Dictionaryonly child noun[ Cusually sing ] us/ˈoʊn·li ˈtʃaɪld/ someone who has no sisters or brothers Examples of only childonly child He was the onlychild of healthy non-consanguineous parents. She was then brought up with extreme care by her patients as their onlychild. Their ordinal positions in their families were onlychild and second child in a family with two children. They are taking advantage of the new economic opportunities, and they want the best possible life for their onlychild. The boy was the onlychild in the family throughout the course of this study. Many of the younger migrants have been the onlychild of the parents, and have no siblings who stay with them. Their chief complaint was of the loneliness and resulting shyness of the onlychild. One might have expected that women who were the onlychild of the family to marry would, as heiresses, have married younger. Despite being an onlychild, she described her parents as cold and distant. Also, as the onlychild (at least for a time) he is the sole object of parental expectations. The onlychild advantage is particularly striking in verbal ability, where the difference in means is nearly one-fifth of a standard deviation. One intolerably hot summer, their onlychild becomes sick and threatens to die without pasteurized milk. The behaviour of that node is wrong, but its onlychild behaved correctly. Furthermore, the onlychild from such an environment would appear to have been under-represented in the graduate sample. I wouldn't have wanted an onlychild. See all examples of only child These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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