kid
noun/kɪd/
/kɪd/
Idioms - [countable] (informal) a child or young person
小孩；年轻人 - Do you have any kids?
你有孩子吗？ - How are the kids (= your children)?
孩子们好吗？ - A bunch of kids were hanging around outside.
一群年轻人在外面到处游逛。 - a gang/group of kids
一帮/一群孩子 - college/school kids
大学生；学生 - street kids who rely on their ingenuity to keep alive
靠机智灵活生存的街头小子 - You're acting like a little kid!
你表现得像个小孩子！ - as a kid I remember reading with my grandmother as a young kid of 6.
我记得我 6 岁时和奶奶一起读书。 - I'm looking forward to getting home to the wife and kids.
我期待着回家与妻子和孩子团聚。 - Here are some fun ways to teach your kids about healthy eating.
这里有一些教孩子们健康饮食的有趣方法。 - The kids love playing outside in the mud.
孩子们喜欢在外面的泥地里玩耍。 - The game is aimed at kids of all ages.
该游戏针对所有年龄段的孩子。
Collocations ChildrenChildrenHaving a baby/childsee also boomerang kid, whizz-kid- want a baby/a child/kids
- start a family
- conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
- miss your period
- become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
- have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
- have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
- be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
- have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
- give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
- bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
- care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
- change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
- feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
- be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
- go back/return to work after maternity leave
- need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
- balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
- educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
- punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
- adopt a baby/child/kid
- offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
- (especially British English) foster a child/kid
- be placed with/be raised by foster parents
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesa2- She's a bright kid.
她是个聪明的孩子。 - He's only a kid. You can't expect him to understand what's going on.
他只是个小孩子，你不能指望他理解出了什么事。 - I feel desperately sorry for the poor kid.
我为这个可怜的孩子感到特别难过。 - I've tried to bring my kids up to respect other people.
我一直努力教导孩子要尊重他人。 - She was crying like a kid.
她像个孩子似的哭泣。 - The older kids had lessons in the afternoon as well.
大一点儿的孩子们下午也有课。 - They had adopted three kids.
他们已经收养了 3 个孩子。 - They're just a bunch of kids.
他们不过是一群孩子。 - We both wanted to have kids.
我们俩都想要孩子。 - a spoiled little rich kid
娇生惯养的富家小孩
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- young
- big
- …
- bunch
- couple
- crowd
- …
- have
- want
- adopt
- …
- just a kid
- only a kid
- like a kid
- …
- Do you have any kids?
- [countable] a young goat
小山羊 - [uncountable] soft leather made from the skin of a young goat
小山羊皮革 - a pair of white kid gloves
一双白色小羊皮手套
- a pair of white kid gloves
Word Originnoun Middle English (in sense (3)): from Old Norse kith, of Germanic origin; related to German Kitze.
Idioms
handle/treat, etc. somebody with kid gloves
- to deal with somebody in a very careful way so that you do not offend or upset them
小心应付某人 - Treat her with kid gloves—she's very sensitive.
和她接触要小心谨慎 － 她很敏感。
- Treat her with kid gloves—she's very sensitive.
kids’ stuff (British English)
(North American English kid stuff)
- something that is so easy to do or understand that it is thought to be not very serious or only suitable for children
极容易的事；“小儿科”；小孩子都懂得的道理 - That was kids' stuff compared with what lies ahead.
和将要发生的一切相比，那算不了什么。 - The movie is pure kids' stuff from beginning to end.
这部电影从头至尾幼稚至极。
- That was kids' stuff compared with what lies ahead.
a/the new kid on the block
- (informal) a person who is new to a place, an organization, etc.
（地方、机构等的）新来者，新手 - Despite his six years in politics, he was still regarded by many as the new kid on the block.
尽管他已经从政六年，但很多人仍把他视为初出茅庐的新手。
- Despite his six years in politics, he was still regarded by many as the new kid on the block.