daugh·ter
noun/ˈdɔːtə(r)/
/ˈdɔːtər/
- a person’s female child
女儿 - We have two sons and a daughter.
我们有两个儿子，一个女儿。 - a baby/teenage daughter
婴儿/十几岁的女儿 - They have three grown-up daughters.
他们有三个成年的女儿。 - She's the eldest daughter of an Oxford professor.
她是牛津大学一位教授的大女儿。 - our younger/youngest daughter
我们的小女儿；我们最小的女儿 - Living alone and trying to bring up a small daughter is no easy task.
独自生活还要抚养一个小女儿并非易事。
Collocations ChildrenChildrenHaving a baby/childsee also god-daughter, granddaughter, stepdaughterTopics Family and relationshipsa1- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baby
- infant
- newborn
- …
- have
- bear
- give birth to
- …
- grow up
- We have two sons and a daughter.
- (literary) a woman who belongs to a particular place or country, etc.
（某地、某国等的）妇女 - one of the town’s most famous daughters
这座城镇最著名的女性之一
- one of the town’s most famous daughters
Word OriginOld English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr.