children

英语

Children.

替代形式

• childer (古体、爱尔兰除外)
• childs (非标准，罕见)
• chillen (视觉方言)

英语

继承自中古英语 children，childre的替代形式 （孩童（复数）； > 英语方言 childer），继承自古英语 ċildru、ċildra (“孩童（复数）”)，ċild (“孩童”) 的主格和斌格复数，等价于 child +‎ -ren。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
• (美国南部，非洲裔美国人白话) 国际音标^(帮助): [tʃɪl.ɹən]
• (通用美式，加拿大) 国际音标^(帮助): [ˈt͡ʃɪl.d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]

• 音频（美国）：

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• (澳大利亚) 国际音标^(帮助): [ˈt͡ʃʊld̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən] (替代形式)
• 断字：child‧ren

名词

children

1. child 的复数。
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, 章号 7, 出自 The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

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   • 2013年6月14日, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 第 189 卷, 第 1 期，第 18 页:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

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异序词

• childern

中古英语

词源

源自childre，加上多馀的复数后缀-en；对照calveren、eiren、lambren。

名词

children

1. child 的复数