latchkey

美 [?læt??ki] 　英 [?læt??ki?]

• n.（房屋等前門或大門的）碰鎖鑰匙
• 網(wǎng)絡閂鎖鑰匙；碰簧鎖鑰匙；彈簧鎖鑰匙

詞形變化

復數(shù)：latchkeys  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.

1. 閂鎖鑰匙

英英解釋

n.	1. the key for opening the lock of an outer door from the outside

例句

He was a latchkey kid - he let himself in after school and waited for his parents to get home.

他是個鑰匙兒童——他下課后自己進去然后等他父母回家。

Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey .

這時有人用鑰匙打開了前門。

The movie is a poignant study of latchkey children trying establish a fragile community in a corrupt, crime-ridden environment.

本片是對父母不在身邊的兒童試圖在腐敗而罪惡的環(huán)境建立脆弱社區(qū)的深刻研究。

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。

She won't interfere with you any more; your independence is achieved and you have won your latchkey.

她再與也不會干涉你了，你有了獨立自主權，你已經(jīng)有了你自己出入大門的鑰匙。

We were the first to be raised in record numbers in daycare, and some 40% of us were latchkey kids.

我們是第一批在幼兒園長大的孩子，我們中間40%的人鑰匙兒（即回家時空無一人的兒童）。

When the parents both work at the restaurant for long hours, their kids generally become latchkey children.

當父母兩人都在餐館長時間的工作時，他們的孩子放學后都要自己開門回家。

At nine o'clock I heard my uncle's latchkey in the hall door.

九點鐘時我聽到叔父用彈簧鑰匙開門廳。

Growing up, my brother and I were often left to our own devices, members of the giant flock of migrant latchkey kids in the 1970s and '80s.

在成長過程中，我和弟弟經(jīng)常要自己照顧自己，屬于脖子上掛著鑰匙、居無定所的兒童，在20世紀70年代和80年代，這種孩子的數(shù)量相當龐大。