1 N-VAR 出生；降生；出世 When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth . 出生；降生；出世
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It was the birth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure. [+ of]
孙子孙女的出生给他带来了极大的快乐。
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She concealed her pregnancy right up to the moment of birth.
她隐瞒了自己怀孕的事，直到孩子出世。
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She weighed 5lb 7oz at birth.
她出生时体重是5磅7盎司。
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...premature births.
早产
SYN childbirth, birthing, delivery, confinement
2 N-UNCOUNT [with poss] 诞生；产生；出现；起源 You can refer to the beginning or origin of something as its birth . 诞生；产生；出现；起源
SYN beginning, start, rise, source
3 N-UNCOUNT 出身；家世；门第 Some people talk about a person's birth when they are referring to the social position of the person's family. 出身；家世；门第
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...men of low birth.
出身卑微的人
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His birth, background and career show that you can make it in this country on merit alone.
他的出身、背景和职业表明，在这个国家仅凭自己的能力就可以取得成功。
SYN ancestry, line, race, stock
4 See also: date of birth home birth
5 PHRASE 在血统上；生来 If, for example, you are French by birth, you are French because your parents are French, or because you were born in France. 在血统上；生来
6 PHRASE 生（孩子）；分娩；生育 When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body. 生（孩子）；分娩；生育
SYN deliver, have, mother, produce
7 PHRASE 使产生；使诞生 To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist. 使产生；使诞生
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In 1980, strikes at the Lenin Shipyards gave birth to the Solidarity trade union.
1980年，列宁造船厂的罢工致使团结工会得以成立。
8 PHRASE 出生的（地方） The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born. 出生的（地方）
Quotations
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar William Wordsworth Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation and death.
I've been born, and once is enough T.S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other Francis Bacon On Death
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval George Santayana Soliloquies in England
| Word Partnership | Use birth with: |
| ADJ. | premature birth 1 |
| N. | birth of a baby/child, birth certificate, birth control, birth and death, birth defect, birth rate 1 date of birth 1 4 birth of a nation 2 |
| PREP. | at birth, before birth 1 by birth 3 5 |
| VERB. | give birth 6 7 |
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