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单词 mother
释义
mother
mʌðəʳ ˈmʌðər
Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense mothers, present participle mothering, past tense , past participle mothered
1 N-FAMILY 母亲;妈妈 Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman. 母亲;妈妈
  • She sat on the edge of her mother's bed.

    她坐在母亲床边。

  • She's an English teacher and a mother of two children. [+ of]

    她是英语教师,还是两个孩子的母亲。

  • Mother and child form a close attachment.

    母子情深。

  • I'm here, Mother.

    我在这儿呢,妈妈。

2 VERB (通常指母亲)照看,抚养,养育 If a woman mothers a child, she looks after it and brings it up, usually because she is its mother. (通常指母亲)照看,抚养,养育
  • Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family. [VERB noun]

    科琳曾梦想抚养一群孩子。

SYN give birth to, produce, bear, bring forth
mothering
  • The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.

    养育孩子的现实经常与浪漫的理想大相径庭。

3 VERB 爱护;溺爱 If you mother someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child. 爱护;溺爱
  • She felt a great need to mother him. [VERB noun]

    她迫切地感到要细心照料他。

  • Stop mothering me. [VERB noun]

    别再宠我了。

SYN nurture, raise, protect, tend
Quotations
So for the mother's sake the child was dear
And dearer was the mother for the child
Samuel Taylor Coleridge `Sonnet to a Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant Child to Me'
Honour thy mother and thy father Bible:Exodus
As is the mother, so is her daughter Bible: Ezekiel
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother W. Somerset Maugham A Writer's Notebook
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