kindergarten

• n. 幼兒園；幼稚園

來自德語，Kind,小孩，兒童，來自PIE*gene,生育，出生，詞源同kin,-er,複數後綴，Garten,花園，詞源同garden.即兒童的花園，或一花園的兒童，比喻義要像對待花園裏麵的花朵一樣對待兒童。

kindergarten (n.)

1852, from German, literally "children's garden," from Kinder "children" (plural of Kind "child;" see kin (n.)) + Garten "garden" (see yard (n.1)). Coined 1840 by German educator Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852) in reference to his method of developing intelligence in young children.

Kindergarten means a garden of children, and Froebel, the inventor of it, or rather, as he would prefer to express it, the discoverer of the method of Nature, meant to symbolize by the name the spirit and plan of treatment. How does the gardener treat his plants? He studies their individual natures, and puts them into such circumstances of soil and atmosphere as enable them to grow, flower, and bring forth fruit,-- also to renew their manifestation year after year. [Mann, Horace, and Elizabeth P. Peabody, "Moral Culture of Infancy and Kindergarten Guide," Boston, 1863]

The first one in England was established 1850 by Johannes Ronge, German Catholic priest; in America, 1868, by Elizabeth Peabody of Boston, Mass. Taken into English untranslated, whereas other nations that borrowed the institution nativized the name (Danish börnehave, Modern Hebrew gan yeladim, literally "garden of children"). Sometimes partially anglicized as kindergarden (attested by 1879).

1. Children graduate to the kindergarten, then pre-school, and then school.

孩子們先上幼兒園，然後上學前班，再接著上小學。

來自柯林斯例句

2. She's in kindergarten now.

她目前在上幼兒園。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten.

那小孩在幼兒園大門口被綁架走了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The children learn singing, dancing, drawing, and the like in the kindergarten.

孩子們在幼兒園裏學習唱歌 、 跳舞 、 畫圖畫等.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. Little tykes play in kindergarten.

小孩在幼兒園玩耍.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》