| 单词 | town child |
| 释义 | > as lemmastown child town child n. an inhabitant, esp. a child, of a town or other urban area; a child born in a particular town, spec. †one eligible for free education at a school in that town (obsolete). [Compare earlier townschild n. at Compounds 2.] ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil having fees paid town child1591 free-placer1899 1591 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries (1920) 25 Dec. 504/2 To Thoms Grene for mendinge the town Chilldrens shone. 1678 tr. J.-F. Sarasin in Coll. Select Disc. France & Italy 56 I should be too long, if after the Gentleman I should examine the Town-Child [Fr. l'Enfant de la Ville]: I will content my self to say by the by, he is one that believes himself an able man. 1766 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 17 Oct. As the whole 1200 will be town children, a greater proportion of them may die than if they were part country children. 1886 Dict. National Biogr. VIII. 277/1 Entered at Christ's Hospital, probably as a ‘town child’ or ‘free scholar’. 1943 Our Towns (Women's Group on Public Welfare) ii. 23 It has become a commonplace to say that the town child is underslept. 2000 I. Hingley in M. Battiste Reclaiming Indigenous Voice & Vision vii. 103 In school, I would find myself alienated from the town children if I played with my friends from White Bear at recess. < as lemmas |
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