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- a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth母亲。
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- a person who provides the care and affection normally associated with a female parent做母亲的人, 慈母般的人：
my adoptive mother.
我的养母。
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- a female animal in relation to its offspring母兽; 母畜：
as modifier a mother penguin.企鹅妈妈。
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- archaic (especially as a form of address) an elderly woman〈古〉（尤作对年长妇女的称呼）大娘。
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Mother, Mother Superior, or Reverend Mother
(especially as a title or form of address) the head of a female religious community妇女宗教团体的女主持人（尤用于称号或称呼）。
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- as modifier denoting an institution or organization from which more recently founded institutions of the same type derive母机构; 母组织。
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- figurative something that is the origin of or stimulus for something else〈喻〉根源, 根由：
the wish was the mother of the deed.
愿望是行动之母。
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- informal an extreme example or very large specimen of something〈非正式〉极端的情况; 大家伙：
I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
我陷入最糟的交通堵塞中。
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- vulgar slang, chiefly N. Amer. short for MOTHERFUCKER.〈粗俚, 主北美〉MOTHERFUCKER的简称。
with obj.
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- often as noun mothering bring up (a child) with care and affection抚育（孩子）：
the art of mothering.
育儿之道。
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- look after kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so母亲般地照管; 溺爱：
she mothered her husband, insisting he should take cod liver oil in the winter.
她无微不至地关心丈夫, 坚持让他冬天吃鳕鱼肝油。
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- dated give birth to〈旧〉生育。
派生词
motherhood
nounmotherless
adjectivemotherlessness
nounmother-like
adjective & adverb词源
Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.