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nounPlural kids kɪdkɪd 1informal A child or young person. 〈非正式〉小孩，年轻人 she collected the kids from school Example sentencesExamples - My teeth are clenched even thinking about kids treating Franklin the way I watched them treat the kids in my school.
- I wanted to know what other kids at my school thought, particularly the girls.
- There is a lot of interaction between boys and girls, rural kids and town kids and also the parents.
- Grateful kids at Whitmore Infant School in Basildon have been packing into the seated area since the structure went up.
- The government's policy of networking all schools should help overcome this problem by targeting the kids directly.
- Children who were allowed fun food were the cool kids at school and their lunchboxes were always higher currency for swaps.
- If you went to private school before, say, 1980, it was probably because you were something of a problem child, or a kid with special needs.
- Near me was sitting a woman with two kids - a toddler girl on her lap and a boy of about three next to her.
- Michael, then 4 and used to seeing foster kids come and go, bonded with the new baby.
- If the family can afford to send just one of its kids to school, it will always choose the boy child.
- He found it difficult to stick to the budget but more problematic was attempting to wean the kids off processed food.
- Jenny never could relate to the problems the other kids in school had with their parents.
- When I was around ten years old, all the kids at school, including the boys, were getting their ears pierced.
- I had forgotten how much fun really tiny kids are, particularly boys.
- The balls are too heavy for smallish children, but school age and older kids are certain to enjoy the challenge.
- Just because someone is a baby, a little kid, a mere youngster, doesn't mean they're not worthy of protecting, does it?
- The two of us mothers were not sure if my boy kid and her girl kid would get along and go sledding while we skied, but we risked it.
- We are linking in with youth organisations, going into schools and letting kids know what the initiative is about.
- I used to go to Sherington school, just over the way, and there's no way that many kids were driven to school when I was a nipper.
- If the child is unresponsive, use more parental interaction, change teachers, change schools, put the kid in special classes, whatever.
Synonyms child, youngster, little one, young one, baby, toddler, infant, boy/girl, young person, minor, juvenile, adolescent, teenager, youth, stripling offspring, son/daughter Scottish bairn, wean West Indian pickney informal kiddie, nipper, tot, tiny, kiddiewink, shaver, young 'un British informal sprog North American informal rug rat Australian/New Zealand ankle-biter derogatory brat, urchin literary babe - 1.1 Used as an informal form of address.
用作非正式称谓 我们会来看你的，小鬼！ Example sentencesExamples - That's the sort of bad karma that happens to people like that, kids.
- There was the number of somebody in my office, Austin S. Don't dial the number, kids.
- Don't leave a gap of several years between visits to the dentist, kids.
- Speaking out in America won't get you shipped off to the gulag, kids.
- Stay outa the comedy clubs, kids, you'll get eaten alive if that's your best comeback.
- Hold onto your hats, kids, it's going to be an exciting ride!
- Like it's ultimately gonna make a blind bit of difference, kids.
- It's all about winning, kids, don't let anybody tell you different.
- Beware your Little League baseball coach, kids, he may just screw up your life.
- I got in about a foot from his rear wheel (don't try this in traffic, kids!) and matched his speed.
- That's called making the most of concurrent annoying situations, kids.
- This is how you'll end up, kids, if you tangle with doughnuts and cough medicine.
- Just remember that next time you shed a tear for the end of a transport route, kids.
- Bleep is cunning in making a virtue out of necessity: this is the future, kids.
- I loathe AND detest the game - and that's all it is, kids, just a silly game.
- And remember: the less you spend, the more you can save, so go easy in those shops, kids!
- There are storm clouds looming just over the horizon, kids, and that can only mean one thing.
- Shock news for the day is that Luke has been fired, which may or may not have something to do with his website. Watch your backs, kids.
- It just shows you, kids, don't ever sign a statement if you haven't been through it with a fine-tooth comb.
- I thought about claiming that as my own, but only karma wins, kids.
2A young goat. 小山羊 Example sentencesExamples - The Tamil original is sprinkled with evocative and lovely terms like poongkuttigal for goat kids.
- But I think the only kind of kid I could manage to have is a goat kid.
- Within the past fortnight he and his staff have helped deliver three lambs, and six African Pygmy goat kids.
- He ignored the oxen like they did not exist and treated the goat kids like they were young colts.
- The family's goat kids shared the dwelling so they wouldn't freeze to death in their first winter.
- 2.1mass noun Leather made from a young goat's skin.
小山羊皮 as modifier white kid gloves 白色小山羊皮手套。 Example sentencesExamples - The faces are made of silk or kid leather, molded and enhanced with embroidered or painted details.
- I pointed to a pair of wine-red kid leather Dolce & Gabbana pumps.
- In her studio she showed us rich, Italian kid leathers, Florentine papers, artisanal glues and brushes.
- Fine kid leather gloves often appear among the accoutrements of fashionable ladies.
verbkids, kidded, kidding kɪdkɪd [no object](of a goat) give birth. （山羊）产羔 milk fever usually occurs in heavy milkers shortly after kidding Example sentencesExamples - The goat will kid each year, often producing twins.
- We are awash with a dozen kids all wanting to be bottle fed 3 times a day, new goats to milk, goats still waiting to kid and everything bored stiff and fed up standing in their pens day after day.
- We first vaccinated the kids on the 18th April 1995, but we did not know for two years, when the goats eventually kidded whether the vaccination had worked or not, and even then they may not succumb to the disease straight away.
Phrasesinformal A thing regarded as very easy or simple to do. 〈非正式〉幼稚的事物；极简单的事物；无知的事物 all this was kids' stuff compared to the directing 可是同导演相比，这一切都显得很幼稚。 Example sentencesExamples - He and Zoë have never really gotten along, ever since we were little and they used to fight about who would sit next to me and silly little kid stuff like that.
- Cartoon Network won't be just kids' stuff for much longer.
- They show that what the front office dismissed as kid stuff was, in reality, the greatest sustained burst of wit in American movie history.
- It was obvious that she loved them, but she was frustrated by her inability to be herself, which appeared to me to be a somewhat reserved type of person who wasn't very interested in kid stuff.
- Demographic-driven marketing isn't just kid stuff, of course.
- Heaven forbid that a guy likes to work or play, or that he gets distracted by adult life, or that he simply sometimes finds kid stuff boring.
- For a long time, cartoons and animated features looked like kids' stuff.
- Coincidentally… we both share the same birthday and I didn't want the people at work to believe I was still into that kid stuff.
- With help from our favorite athletes and coaches, we've built a game-laden plan that turns staying in shape into kid stuff.
- Most people still think that video games are sophomoric kid stuff; the ones that have a narrative and emulate the movies seem more serious and, well, mature.
informal One's younger brother or sister (often used as a form of address) 〈英，非正式〉小弟弟，小妹妹（常用作称谓） 小弟弟，过来。 Example sentencesExamples - I sympathise with our kid Jeremy, and I know exactly what it feels like when your heart appears in your throat and your life as an unemployed and discredited industry hack flashes before you.
- Meanwhile, between power naps, mojito making, a quick smoothie and facial session yesterday, our kid Jonas caught up with yours truly to talk all things metrosexual.
- ‘Shurrup our kid,’ said his older brother Noel, ‘or I'll give you a hiding.’
OriginMiddle English (in sense 2 of the noun): from Old Norse kith, of Germanic origin; related to German Kitze. Young goats are traditionally a source of soft pliable leather for fine gloves. In the 19th century this gave us the expression handle with kid gloves to mean ‘to deal very tactfully and gently with’. Our familiar use of kid for a young person developed in the 19th century, but probably looks back to late 17th-century slang use to mean a baby or young child. The verb kidnap—its second syllable is a slang word, nap, meaning ‘to take or seize’—originally referred to the 17th-century practice of stealing children to provide servants or labourers for the new American plantations.
Rhymesamid, backslid, bid, did, forbid, grid, hid, id, Kidd, lid, Madrid, mid, outbid, outdid, quid, rid, skid, slid, squid, underbid, yid verbkids, kidded, kidding kɪdkɪd [with object]informal 1Deceive (someone) in a playful way; tease. 〈非正式〉戏弄；开玩笑 你在跟我开玩笑！ Example sentencesExamples - How I would kid him about all the air time and the praise he was getting.
- And of course, he loved the drinking, to kid me about the drinking.
- I'm around other people's fathers and Ayesha's father used to tease me and Anya, Anya especially, and we kidded him right back.
- I saw my friend and stopped to talk for a moment, kidding him about his posh attire (suit and tie - think he must've had an interview or something).
- My dad used to kid her and tease her about it on election day.
- I've been kidding him for years now that this was where he would end up.
- He is kidded and cajoled by his three secret tormentors into approaching her at the bar and making a pitch.
- Over the years, you have stayed in touch, exchanged long phone calls and birthday cards and kidded him about marrying well.
Synonyms joke, tease, jest, chaff, be facetious pretend, play, fool about/around informal pull someone's leg, wind up, have on, rib, josh North American informal pull someone's chain, fun, shuck - 1.1with object and clause Fool (someone) into believing something.
he likes to kid everyone he's the big macho tough guy 他喜欢欺骗大家说他就是那个大块头硬汉。 Example sentencesExamples - We kid ourselves about always being philosophical or gracious in defeat, and while we can be - it is hardly carved in stone.
- We may not all put up such a front, but let's not kid ourselves; We all put up a front or façade, and some are prettier or more elaborate than others.
- Having been beaten by Scotland, England can now stop kidding us - or was it themselves?
- Well let us not kid ourselves - our roll of honour is not exactly bursting at the seams with feats of glorious achievement.
- He's kidding nobody, least of all his own persecuted people.
- Don't kid yourself into believing this means it doesn't go on.
- This is one more case where we shouldn't kid ourselves.
- Rather, feeling the need to give a reason, we invent one on the spot and kid ourselves we believe it.
- We can try to kid ourselves into believing that following Jesus isn't such a difficult thing.
- Every time you turn a page of his autobiography, you're going, you're kidding me, this happened?
- Everybody in the terminal - I kid you not, at least two to three hundred people - just started clapping, spontaneously.
- He was a fool to kid himself into thinking he'd made it because he was good.
- And I will not kid myself and pretend that we shall not have more in the future.
- But let's not kid ourselves into thinking that we will be a service oriented economy for long…
- If you say you're not thinking about it, you're kidding me.
- I don't kid myself that it will be of interest to anybody but myself, so I've created another blog for the purpose.
- We are not fools trying to kid ourselves but we want him to lead as normal a life as possible for as long as he can.
- Those who say that they are willing to sacrifice their self-interest to protect yours are either kidding you, themselves, or both.
- Don't let me kid you into believing that you can develop software with the utmost ease.
- I kid myself, of course - but I like to pretend the thing brings good luck.
Synonyms delude, deceive, fool, trick, take in, hoodwink, hoax, beguile, dupe, gull, bamboozle informal con, pull the wool over someone's eyes literary cozen - 1.2kid aroundno object Behave in a silly way.
胡闹；出洋相 we were just kidding around 我们只是到处戏弄人。 Example sentencesExamples - He kids around, annoying Mike and amusing Frank.
- ‘Carol,’ she said sternly, ‘we are not kidding around here.’
- Lanier, who was not kidding around, submitted this proposal to an international competition sponsored by the New York Times Magazine to build a time capsule that would preserve information for a thousand years.
- At first I thought he was just kidding around, as did everyone else, but he was genuinely challenging the lecturers, at points raising his voice and even banging on the desk like a child that wasn't getting it's way.
- He laughs again to show he's not posturing, he's kidding around.
Phrasesinformal Used to indicate that a statement is not to be taken seriously. I am quite ready to retire. (Just kidding!)
informal Used to emphasize the truth of a statement. （用以强调陈述的真实性）不开玩笑；说真的 说真的，她走了。 Example sentencesExamples - it turns out that these people will make ice cream out of anything… including horses, cows, goats, whales, seaweed, garlic, silk, potatoes… no kidding!
- Particularly if you're from - no kidding - Toronto.
- I've only done it once, and then I slept for a week, no kidding.
- Yeah, no kidding - I am a hobo, and it's pathetic.
- And, no kidding, I was given some strawberry rhubarb jam to take home as a lovely departing gift.
- Its been a warm week and work is proving to be the ultimate test in how much heat you can tolerate while working, no kidding!
- I walked into a large chain bookstore in Paris while we were there, and no kidding, the whole first floor was devoted to graphic novels of one form or another.
- Next week is, no kidding, National Hug-A-Vending-Machine Week.
- He activated a blue strobe light in the vent hood - no kidding - to add a sense of urgency.
- There again, I read the novel, which is a trial and half, and no kidding.
you must be (or have to be) kidding informal Used to express incredulity about someone's actions or claims. two hours to make a hot dog—you must be kidding Example sentencesExamples - You've got to be kidding if you think this administration wants people to conserve energy.
- Drop the price by £ 50,000, one said. You must be kidding, I told him.
- Do you think you can do all these things in 45 minutes? You must be kidding!
- Our job is challenging at times, but when you add a couple feet of snow, it's like, you've got to be kidding me.
- You liked it? You have to be kidding me.
Derivativesnounˈkɪdəˈkɪdər informal A person who deceives others in a playful way. he is the consummate kidder Example sentencesExamples - you can't kid a kidder
- Two cross-talk comedians would find it hard to keep up with these first-class kidders.
- ‘Always the kidder,’ said Benny, letting out another belly laugh.
- I learned a lesson that night: don't kid a kidder.
adverb I always kiddingly tell people what I call the orange juice story. Example sentencesExamples - ‘That shows where we rate,’ Carr said, kiddingly.
- Calok smirked at her and said kiddingly, ‘What hole did you slither out of?’
OriginEarly 19th century: perhaps from kid1, expressing the notion ‘make a child or goat of’. nounPlural kids kɪdkɪd archaic A small wooden tub, especially a sailor's mess tub for grog or rations. 〈古〉（尤指水手食堂盛格罗格酒或配额食物用的）小木桶
OriginMid 18th century: perhaps a variant of kit1. nounkidkɪd 1informal A child or young person. 〈非正式〉小孩，年轻人 Example sentencesExamples - The government's policy of networking all schools should help overcome this problem by targeting the kids directly.
- He found it difficult to stick to the budget but more problematic was attempting to wean the kids off processed food.
- Near me was sitting a woman with two kids - a toddler girl on her lap and a boy of about three next to her.
- Children who were allowed fun food were the cool kids at school and their lunchboxes were always higher currency for swaps.
- Michael, then 4 and used to seeing foster kids come and go, bonded with the new baby.
- There is a lot of interaction between boys and girls, rural kids and town kids and also the parents.
- I used to go to Sherington school, just over the way, and there's no way that many kids were driven to school when I was a nipper.
- The balls are too heavy for smallish children, but school age and older kids are certain to enjoy the challenge.
- If you went to private school before, say, 1980, it was probably because you were something of a problem child, or a kid with special needs.
- Jenny never could relate to the problems the other kids in school had with their parents.
- My teeth are clenched even thinking about kids treating Franklin the way I watched them treat the kids in my school.
- I had forgotten how much fun really tiny kids are, particularly boys.
- Just because someone is a baby, a little kid, a mere youngster, doesn't mean they're not worthy of protecting, does it?
- When I was around ten years old, all the kids at school, including the boys, were getting their ears pierced.
- If the family can afford to send just one of its kids to school, it will always choose the boy child.
- The two of us mothers were not sure if my boy kid and her girl kid would get along and go sledding while we skied, but we risked it.
- If the child is unresponsive, use more parental interaction, change teachers, change schools, put the kid in special classes, whatever.
- I wanted to know what other kids at my school thought, particularly the girls.
- We are linking in with youth organisations, going into schools and letting kids know what the initiative is about.
- Grateful kids at Whitmore Infant School in Basildon have been packing into the seated area since the structure went up.
Synonyms child, youngster, little one, young one, baby, toddler, infant, boy, girl, young person, minor, juvenile, adolescent, teenager, youth, stripling - 1.1 Used as an informal form of address.
用作非正式称谓 Example sentencesExamples - It's all about winning, kids, don't let anybody tell you different.
- I loathe AND detest the game - and that's all it is, kids, just a silly game.
- Speaking out in America won't get you shipped off to the gulag, kids.
- Shock news for the day is that Luke has been fired, which may or may not have something to do with his website. Watch your backs, kids.
- There was the number of somebody in my office, Austin S. Don't dial the number, kids.
- And remember: the less you spend, the more you can save, so go easy in those shops, kids!
- Don't leave a gap of several years between visits to the dentist, kids.
- I thought about claiming that as my own, but only karma wins, kids.
- It just shows you, kids, don't ever sign a statement if you haven't been through it with a fine-tooth comb.
- That's the sort of bad karma that happens to people like that, kids.
- This is how you'll end up, kids, if you tangle with doughnuts and cough medicine.
- I got in about a foot from his rear wheel (don't try this in traffic, kids!) and matched his speed.
- There are storm clouds looming just over the horizon, kids, and that can only mean one thing.
- That's called making the most of concurrent annoying situations, kids.
- Beware your Little League baseball coach, kids, he may just screw up your life.
- Like it's ultimately gonna make a blind bit of difference, kids.
- Bleep is cunning in making a virtue out of necessity: this is the future, kids.
- Stay outa the comedy clubs, kids, you'll get eaten alive if that's your best comeback.
- Just remember that next time you shed a tear for the end of a transport route, kids.
- Hold onto your hats, kids, it's going to be an exciting ride!
2A young goat. 小山羊 Example sentencesExamples - But I think the only kind of kid I could manage to have is a goat kid.
- The family's goat kids shared the dwelling so they wouldn't freeze to death in their first winter.
- Within the past fortnight he and his staff have helped deliver three lambs, and six African Pygmy goat kids.
- He ignored the oxen like they did not exist and treated the goat kids like they were young colts.
- The Tamil original is sprinkled with evocative and lovely terms like poongkuttigal for goat kids.
- 2.1 Leather made from a young goat's skin.
小山羊皮 as modifier white kid gloves 白色小山羊皮手套。 Example sentencesExamples - In her studio she showed us rich, Italian kid leathers, Florentine papers, artisanal glues and brushes.
- I pointed to a pair of wine-red kid leather Dolce & Gabbana pumps.
- Fine kid leather gloves often appear among the accoutrements of fashionable ladies.
- The faces are made of silk or kid leather, molded and enhanced with embroidered or painted details.
verbkidkɪd [no object](of a goat) give birth. （山羊）产羔 Example sentencesExamples - We are awash with a dozen kids all wanting to be bottle fed 3 times a day, new goats to milk, goats still waiting to kid and everything bored stiff and fed up standing in their pens day after day.
- The goat will kid each year, often producing twins.
- We first vaccinated the kids on the 18th April 1995, but we did not know for two years, when the goats eventually kidded whether the vaccination had worked or not, and even then they may not succumb to the disease straight away.
UsageKid, meaning ‘child,’ although widely seen in informal contexts, should, like its casual relatives mom and dad, be avoided in formal writing Phrasesinformal A thing regarded as childishly simple or naive. 〈非正式〉幼稚的事物；极简单的事物；无知的事物 all this was kids' stuff compared to the directing 可是同导演相比，这一切都显得很幼稚。 Example sentencesExamples - He and Zoë have never really gotten along, ever since we were little and they used to fight about who would sit next to me and silly little kid stuff like that.
- Cartoon Network won't be just kids' stuff for much longer.
- Heaven forbid that a guy likes to work or play, or that he gets distracted by adult life, or that he simply sometimes finds kid stuff boring.
- Most people still think that video games are sophomoric kid stuff; the ones that have a narrative and emulate the movies seem more serious and, well, mature.
- With help from our favorite athletes and coaches, we've built a game-laden plan that turns staying in shape into kid stuff.
- Coincidentally… we both share the same birthday and I didn't want the people at work to believe I was still into that kid stuff.
- Demographic-driven marketing isn't just kid stuff, of course.
- For a long time, cartoons and animated features looked like kids' stuff.
- It was obvious that she loved them, but she was frustrated by her inability to be herself, which appeared to me to be a somewhat reserved type of person who wasn't very interested in kid stuff.
- They show that what the front office dismissed as kid stuff was, in reality, the greatest sustained burst of wit in American movie history.
OriginMiddle English (in kid (sense 2 of the noun)): from Old Norse kith, of Germanic origin; related to German Kitze. verbkidkɪd [with object]informal 1Deceive (someone) in a playful or teasing way. 〈非正式〉戏弄；开玩笑 你在跟我开玩笑！ no object we were just kidding around 我们只是到处戏弄人。 Example sentencesExamples - I saw my friend and stopped to talk for a moment, kidding him about his posh attire (suit and tie - think he must've had an interview or something).
- My dad used to kid her and tease her about it on election day.
- And of course, he loved the drinking, to kid me about the drinking.
- I'm around other people's fathers and Ayesha's father used to tease me and Anya, Anya especially, and we kidded him right back.
- I've been kidding him for years now that this was where he would end up.
- Over the years, you have stayed in touch, exchanged long phone calls and birthday cards and kidded him about marrying well.
- How I would kid him about all the air time and the praise he was getting.
- He is kidded and cajoled by his three secret tormentors into approaching her at the bar and making a pitch.
Synonyms joke, tease, jest, chaff, be facetious - 1.1with object and clause Deceive or fool (someone)
欺骗，愚弄 he likes to kid everyone he's the big macho tough guy 他喜欢欺骗大家说他就是那个大块头硬汉。 they kid themselves that it's still the same 他们欺骗自己说这仍然是一样的。 Example sentencesExamples - Rather, feeling the need to give a reason, we invent one on the spot and kid ourselves we believe it.
- Having been beaten by Scotland, England can now stop kidding us - or was it themselves?
- I kid myself, of course - but I like to pretend the thing brings good luck.
- Those who say that they are willing to sacrifice their self-interest to protect yours are either kidding you, themselves, or both.
- Don't let me kid you into believing that you can develop software with the utmost ease.
- We may not all put up such a front, but let's not kid ourselves; We all put up a front or façade, and some are prettier or more elaborate than others.
- This is one more case where we shouldn't kid ourselves.
- He's kidding nobody, least of all his own persecuted people.
- We are not fools trying to kid ourselves but we want him to lead as normal a life as possible for as long as he can.
- Well let us not kid ourselves - our roll of honour is not exactly bursting at the seams with feats of glorious achievement.
- Every time you turn a page of his autobiography, you're going, you're kidding me, this happened?
- If you say you're not thinking about it, you're kidding me.
- We can try to kid ourselves into believing that following Jesus isn't such a difficult thing.
- But let's not kid ourselves into thinking that we will be a service oriented economy for long…
- And I will not kid myself and pretend that we shall not have more in the future.
- Everybody in the terminal - I kid you not, at least two to three hundred people - just started clapping, spontaneously.
- He was a fool to kid himself into thinking he'd made it because he was good.
- Don't kid yourself into believing this means it doesn't go on.
- I don't kid myself that it will be of interest to anybody but myself, so I've created another blog for the purpose.
- We kid ourselves about always being philosophical or gracious in defeat, and while we can be - it is hardly carved in stone.
Synonyms delude, deceive, fool, trick, take in, hoodwink, hoax, beguile, dupe, gull, bamboozle
Phrasesinformal Used to indicate that a statement is not to be taken seriously. I am quite ready to retire. (Just kidding!)
you must be (or have to be) kidding informal Used to express incredulity about someone's actions or claims. two hours to make a hot dog—you must be kidding Example sentencesExamples - You've got to be kidding if you think this administration wants people to conserve energy.
- Our job is challenging at times, but when you add a couple feet of snow, it's like, you've got to be kidding me.
- You liked it? You have to be kidding me.
- Drop the price by £ 50,000, one said. You must be kidding, I told him.
- Do you think you can do all these things in 45 minutes? You must be kidding!
OriginEarly 19th century: perhaps from kid, expressing the notion ‘make a child or goat of’. nounkidkɪd archaic A small wooden tub, especially a sailor's mess tub for grog or rations. 〈古〉（尤指水手食堂盛格罗格酒或配额食物用的）小木桶
OriginMid 18th century: perhaps a variant of kit. |