par·ent
noun/ˈpeərənt/
/ˈperənt/
- [usually plural] a person’s father or mother
父亲；母亲 - He's still living with his parents.
他还和父母住在一起。 - Sue and Ben have recently become parents.
休和本最近当了爸爸妈妈了。 - It can be difficult to be a good parent.
成为一个好父母可能很困难。 - her adoptive parents (= who have legally adopted her as their child)
她的养父母 - It's not easy being a foster parent (= who looks after a child for a period of time without legally adopting him/her) to these children.
作为这些孩子的养父母（=在一段时间内照顾孩子但没有合法收养他/她）并不容易。 - his biological/birth parents (= natural parents, not ones who adopt or foster)
他的亲生父母/亲生父母（=亲生父母，而不是收养或寄养的父母） - Emma is a lone parent with two children.
艾玛是一位有两个孩子的单亲家长。 - More childcare options and more paid leave will improve the lives of working parents.
更多的儿童保育选择和更多的带薪休假将改善在职父母的生活。
Wordfinder- adopt
- child
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- generation
- heir
- in-laws
- parent
- relation
- stepfamily
- surrogate mother
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesa1, Family and relationshipsa1- The study showed that children with involved parents do better at school.
研究表明，和家长有更多时间互动的孩子在学校表现得较好。 - They have just become the proud parents of a baby girl.
他们刚有了一个小女孩，感到很自豪。 - They may not be my biological parents but I consider them my real mum and dad.
他们可能不是我的亲生父母，但我认为他们是我真正的妈妈和爸爸。 - Concerned parents want more information about the safety of these products.
忧心忡忡的家长希望获得有关这些产品安全性的更多信息。 - More and more women are caring for both young children and elderly parents.
越来越多的妇女开始照顾年幼的孩子和年迈的父母。 - He was born in Montana to Greek immigrant parents.
他出生于蒙大拿州，父母是希腊移民。 - They are all the children of divorced parents.
他们都是离婚父母的孩子。 - My parents' generation didn't worry about sitting their kids in front of the TV.
我父母那一代并不担心让孩子坐在电视机前。 - She spends every Christmas at her parents' house.
她每年圣诞节都会在父母家里度过。 - It's important for parents and teachers to work together.
家长和老师的共同努力很重要。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- married
- unmarried
- divorced
- …
- company
- He's still living with his parents.
- (often used as an adjective) an animal or a plant which produces other animals or plants
（动、植物的）亲本，亲代，父本，母本 - the parent bird/tree
亲代鸟；亲代树
- the parent bird/tree
- (often used as an adjective) an organization that produces and owns or controls smaller organizations of the same type
创始机构；母公司；总部 - a parent bank and its subsidiaries
总行及其附属银行 - The subsidiary eventually outgrew its parent company and took it over.
子公司的发展最终超越了母公司，将母公司收购了。
- a parent bank and its subsidiaries
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin parent- ‘bringing forth’, from the verb parere. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.