son
noun/sʌn/
/sʌn/
Idioms - [countable] a person’s male child
儿子 - their four-year-old son
他们四岁的儿子 - my teenage/eldest son
我十几岁的儿子；我的大儿子 - her young/baby son
她的幼年儿子／男婴 - We have two sons and a daughter.
我们有两个儿子，一个女儿。 - They have three grown-up sons.
他们有三个成年的儿子。 - In January 1816 she gave birth to a son, William.
1816年1月，她生下了儿子威廉。 - She is survived by a son, Christopher.
她身后留下一个儿子克里斯托弗。 - the birth/death of a son
儿子的出生/死亡 - son of somebody He's the son of an Oxford professor.
他是牛津大学一位教授的儿子。 - He was like a son to me.
对我来说，他像儿子一般。 - Maine & Sons, Grocers (= the name of a company on a sign)
梅因父子杂货店
Collocations ChildrenChildrenHaving a baby/child- want a baby/a child/kids
- start a family
- conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
- miss your period
- become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
- have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
- have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
- be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
- have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
- give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
- bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
- care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
- change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
- feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
- be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
- go back/return to work after maternity leave
- need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
- balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
- educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
- punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
- adopt a baby/child/kid
- offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
- (especially British English) foster a child/kid
- be placed with/be raised by foster parents
Homophones son | sunson sun/sʌn//sʌn/- son noun
- Their youngest son is still living at home.
他们最小的儿子仍然住在家里。
- Their youngest son is still living at home.
- sun noun
- Let's go for a picnic while the sun is shining!
趁着阳光明媚，我们去野餐吧！
- Let's go for a picnic while the sun is shining!
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsa1- Living alone and trying to bring up a young son is no easy task.
独自生活，还要养大年幼的儿子，这不是件容易的事。 - The queen bore him four fine sons.
王后为他生了 4 个健康的男孩。 - They welcomed me like a long-lost son.
他们就像欢迎失散多年的儿子一样欢迎我。 - an illegitimate son of Louis XV
路易十五的非婚生子 - Our oldest son is playing football.
我们的大儿子正在踢足球。 - his son from a previous marriage
他前一段婚姻所生的儿子
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baby
- newborn
- infant
- …
- have
- bear
- give birth to
- …
- grow up
- their four-year-old son
- [singular] (informal) a friendly form of address that is used by an older man to a young man or boy
（年长者对年轻男子或男孩的爱称）孩子 - Well, son, how can I help you?
那么，孩子，我能为你做点什么呢？
- Well, son, how can I help you?
- [countable] (literary) a man who belongs to a particular place or country, etc.
（某个地方、国家等的）男性成员，子孙 - one of France’s most famous sons
法国最著名的人士之一 - a native son of Philadelphia
费城本地人
- one of France’s most famous sons
- my son[countable] (formal) used by a priest to address a boy or man
（司铎对男子或男孩的称呼）孩子 - the Son[singular] Jesus Christ as the second member of the Trinity
圣子（耶稣基督） - the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
圣父、圣子和圣灵
- the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
Word OriginOld English sunu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zoon and German Sohn, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek huios.
Idioms
somebody’s favourite son
- a performer, politician, sports player, etc., who is popular where they were born
故乡的骄子（可指演员、政治家、运动员等） - (in the US) a candidate for president who is supported by his or her own state in the first part of a campaign
（大选第一阶段）本州支持的总统候选人
from father to son
- from one generation of a family to the next
从父到子；世代相传
like father, like son
- (saying) used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father
有其父必有其子
the/a prodigal (son)
- a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home
回头的浪子；改邪归正的人