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children noun, plural—儿童 n (almost always used) ()Examples:"flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything send their children abroad to study—hand foot and mouth disease, HFMD, caused by a number of intestinal viruses, usually affecting young children—kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example—love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children—Communist Party official whose wife and children have left China reside in a foreign country—encumbered by wife and children—(children) run around parent's knees—children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s—cross little fingers (between children) as a promise—little monkey (affectionate term for children, subordinates)—abandon wife and children—full-time care (of children in a boarding nursery)—(of parents) bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age—Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14—love the common people as one's own children (praise for a virtuous ruler)—a crocodile (of school children)—be afraid of strangers (of small children)—support one's husband and raise children—housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them—step-children (discriminatory term)—honor old people as we do our own aged parents, and care for other's children as one's own—infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)—qualities that delight children (e.g. bold colors in a picture, anthropomorphized characters in a TV show, the physical challenge of playground equipment)—prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or indicate affection or familiarity—percentage of children who enter school—egg rolling (rolling of decorated, hard-boiled eggs down hillsides by children at Easter)—money given children as new year present—not suitable for children—collect (e.g. a child left in sb's care beforehand)—tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child—Chronos, Greek God and cannibalistic child abuser, father of Zeus—accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas—Pu Yi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor—Kappa, a child-size humanoid water creature in Japanese folklore—lit. orchids and jade trees (idiom); fig. a child with splendid future prospects—infant's part in opera, usually played by child actor—a married couple allowed dispensation have second child—practice of allowing only one child per family—woman of similar age one's parents (term of address used by child)—(old) child, particularly referring the son who resembles his father—lit. hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life—(Taiwan usage) child in need of help (orphaned, abandoned, abused etc)—pedophile (slang, referring the case of a Hong Kong child abductor)—give one's child the best education as a career investment—adopt (choose to raise a child or animal as one's own)—help a child with their study, reading or practicing together—parent-child relationship n —three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof rip the tiles [idiom.]— |