晚飯后在小區(qū)散步，總能看到很多寵物家庭的成員也在散步，小貓、小狗居多。有時(shí)候小狗淘氣跑遠(yuǎn)了，主人就會(huì)特別親切地喊：“寶寶，快回媽媽這兒來！”這樣的情況好像在全世界都比較普遍了，所以英語里面也就出現(xiàn)了對(duì)應(yīng)的說法，管這些被當(dāng)成孩子來養(yǎng)的寵物叫fur kid。

Fur kid refers to a pet treated as though it were one's child.

寵物孩子（fur kid）指被主人當(dāng)成孩子來對(duì)待的寵物。

The term fur kid, of course, takes people beyond the treatment of the animal as a mere companion and into the realm of surrogate kid-hood. Now the animal guardians can apply their hyper-parenting skills to their dogs, cats, and other four-legged members of the family.

“Fur kid”這個(gè)說法的出現(xiàn)使得人們對(duì)這些動(dòng)物的態(tài)度不再限于“伙伴”這個(gè)層面，而是進(jìn)入到了讓寵物代替孩子的階段。如今，動(dòng)物衛(wèi)士們可以把他們超強(qiáng)的育兒技能用在他們的貓貓狗狗以及其他四條腿的家庭成員身上了。

That some of them are doing this is further evidenced by the fact that a number of synonyms for fur kid exist, including fur baby and fur child.

像fur baby、fur child等與fur kid類似表達(dá)的大量出現(xiàn)說明很多寵物主人們都在把動(dòng)物當(dāng)成孩子來養(yǎng)。

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（英語點(diǎn)津 Helen 編輯）

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