kindergarten

英 ['k?nd?,gɑ?t(?)n] 美['k?nd?ɡɑrtn]

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復(fù)數(shù):?kindergartens;

kindergarten 幼兒園

來自德語，Kind,小孩，兒童，來自PIE*gene,生育，出生，詞源同kin,-er,復(fù)數(shù)后綴，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里面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 Fr?bel (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 b?rnehave, 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，然后上學(xué)前班，再接著上小學(xué)。

4. The children learn singing, dancing, drawing, and the like in the kindergarten.: 孩子們在幼兒園里學(xué)習(xí)唱歌、跳舞、畫圖畫等.