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Children.

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繼承自中古英語 childrenchildre的替代形式 孩童(複數); > 英語方言 childer,繼承自古英語 ċildruċildra (孩童(複數))ċild (孩童) 的主格和斌格複數,等價於 child +‎ -ren

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children

  1. child複數
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, 章號 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 頁:
      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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源自childre,加上多餘的複數後綴-en;對照calvereneirenlambren

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children

  1. child複數