offspring

Compared meaning: baby animals (noun).

比较义项：动物的幼崽（名词）。

• young

  An informal, everyday word for baby animals collectively, almost always appearing as 'the young' or 'their young'; common in nature descriptions, not used in formal or scientific writing.

  口语化、常用于日常语境的词，几乎总是以“the young”或“their young”的形式出现，多用于自然、动物题材的描写，不用于正式或科学性文本。

  Penguins take turns keeping their young warm in the freezing wind.

  企鹅轮流让幼崽在刺骨寒风中保持温暖。

• offspring 本词

  A formal, often scientific word for children or animal young, with identical singular and plural forms, typically used in discussions of genetics, biology, or family lineage.

  正式、常见于科学语境的词，指子女或动物幼崽，单复数同形，多用于遗传学、生物学或家族血统相关的讨论中。

  The study tracked how a mutation is passed on to future offspring.

  这项研究追踪了一种基因突变如何遗传给后代。

Young and offspring can both mean baby animals. Young is informal and everyday, almost always about animals, common in nature writing. Offspring is more formal, often scientific, with the same form for singular and plural, and can mean animal babies or human children.

这两个词在指“子女／幼崽”时意思相近，但语域不同：young 更口语化，几乎只用于动物，常见于自然题材的描写；offspring 更正式，常用于科学或家系语境，既可指动物幼崽，也可指人的子女。这里不比较 offspring 表示抽象“产物、结果”的用法，也不比较 young 作形容词表示“年轻的”的用法。