latchkey child

latchkey child

美 　英

• n.（因父母雙雙上班放學后獨自在家的）掛鑰匙兒童
• 網絡掛鑰匙的孩子；脖子上掛鑰匙的孩子；掛鑰匙孩子

詞形變化

單數：latchkey kid  復數：latchkey kids  復數：latchkey children  

英漢解釋

n.	1. a child whose parents work and who returns from school to an empty house

例句

She says that much of her self-sufficiency derives from being a latchkey child when she was young.

她說她的自給自足的習性大多源自幼小時一段掛鑰匙的兒童生活。