前面用an,例如:

1.I'm an only child.我是独生子。

2.I was an only child, and so had no experience of large families我是独生子,因此没有在大家庭里生活的经历。

3.How to educate an only child is a new problem for us.如何教育好独生子女,这给我们提出了新的课题。