mother英 [ˈmʌðə(r)]　美 [ˈmʌðɚ]　

第三人称单数：mothers第三人称复数：mothers现在分词：mothering过去式：mothered

mother 基本解释

名词 母亲，妈妈; 女修道院院长; 大娘

及物动词 像母亲般地照顾; 养育; 溺爱

mother 同义词

动词  breed nurse produce foster attend to nurture bring about watch cause look after originate mind care for

名词  mommy mom female parent mama

mother 反义词

名词  father

mother 相关例句

及物动词

1. She mothered two sons but no daughters.
    她生了两个儿子，但没有女儿。

名词

1. Necessity is the mother of invention.
    需要乃发明之母。

2. She's a mother of three.
    她是三个孩子的妈妈。

3. His mother and father are both college teachers.
    他的父母都是大学教师。

4. She is a mother of five children.
    她是有五个孩子的母亲。

mother 情景对话

时尚

A：Wow, I love those jeans! Are they designer jeans?
      哇，我喜欢那些牛仔裤。他们是名牌吗？

B：I don’t know. My mother just gave them to me.
      我不知道，是我妈妈给我的。

A：Let me see. These are really expensive jeans! Your mother must really love you.
      让我看看。这牛仔裤真的很贵。你的妈妈一定很爱你。

B：I guess. I don’t really like designer clothes though. I don’t know why people spend so much money on a piece of clothing. The money could be spent in a much better way.
      我想是的。可我不怎么喜欢名牌衣服。我不明白为什么人们要在一件衣服上花这么多的钱。钱应该花在更好的地方。

A：Well, if you decide you don’t want them, let me know. I’m sure I could find someone who would like to wear them.
      如果你决定不想要他们就告诉我，我保证可以找到喜欢穿它的人。

B：Do you have a lot of brand name clothes?
      你有很多名牌衣服吗？

A：I wouldn’t wear anything that wasn’t a brand name.
      我不穿没有牌子的衣服。

B：Really? You must spend a lot of money on clothing then.
      真的吗？那你一定在衣服上花了很多钱。

A：I do, but I think it’s worth it. People treat you differently when you have nice clothing on.
      是的，但是我觉得值得。当你穿好衣服时人们对你的态度都不一样。

B：Do you think that’s true?
      你认为确实是那样吗？

A：Sure. Pay attention as you walk down the street in those jeans. People will be looking.
      当然。当你穿着那条牛仔裤在街上走的时候你留意一下，人们会注意你。

B：I don’t believe it. I think designer clothing is a complete waste of money. Especially when you can’t afford it!
      我不相信。我认为品牌衣服完全是浪费钱，尤其是当你买不起的时候。

A：To each their own, I guess!
      我想，各人有各人的想法吧！

mother 中文词源

mother 母亲

来自PIE*mater,妈妈，来自*ma,妈，儿语，词源同maternal,matron.-ter,表亲属关系。拼写喉音化。

mother’s ruin 杜松子酒

比喻用法。

mother 双语例句

• mother 

• mother: [OE] The ancestral Indo-European word for ‘mother’ was *māter-, which has descendants in virtually all the modern European languages. It was probably based on the syllable ma, suggested by the burbling of a suckling baby, which also lies behind English mama, mamma (and indeed mammal). Amongst its immediate descendants were Latin māter (source of English madrigal, material, maternal, matrimony, matrix, matron, and matter) and Greek métēr (from which English gets metropolis).
  
  In prehistoric Germanic it evolved to *mōthar-, which has differentiated to German mutter, Dutch moeder, Swedish and Danish moder, and English mother.
  => madrigal, mamma, mammal, material, maternal, matrimony, matrix, matron,matter, metropolis

• mother  (n.1)

• Old English modor "female parent," from Proto-Germanic *mothær (cognates: Old Saxon modar, Old Frisian moder, Old Norse moðir, Danish moder, Dutch moeder, Old High German muoter, German Mutter), from PIE *mater- "mother" (cognates: Latin mater, Old Irish mathir, Lithuanian mote, Sanskrit matar-, Greek meter, Old Church Slavonic mati), "[b]ased ultimately on the baby-talk form *mā- (2); with the kinship term suffix *-ter-" [Watkins]. Spelling with -th-dates from early 16c., though that pronunciation is probably older (see father (n.)).  
  
  Mother nature first attested c. 1600; mother earth is from 1580s. Mother tongue "one's native language" first attested late 14c. Mother of all ________ 1991, is Gulf War slang, from Saddam Hussein's use in reference to the coming battle; it is an Arabic idiom (as well as an English one), for instance Ayesha, second wife of Muhammad, is known as Mother of Believers. Mother Carey's chickens is late 18c. sailors' nickname for storm petrels, or for snowflakes. Mother lode attested by c. 1882, from mining [1849].

• mother  (v.)

• 1540s, "to be the mother of," from mother (n.1). Meaning "to take care of" is from 1863. Related: Mothered; mothering.

• mother  (n.2)

• "a thick substance concreting in liquors; the lees or scum concreted" [Johnson], probably from Middle Dutch modder "filth, dregs," from PIE *meu- (see mud).

mother 词典解释

1. 母亲;妈妈
    Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman.

    e.g. She sat on the edge of her mother's bed...
           她坐在母亲床边。
    e.g. She's an English teacher and a mother of two children...
           她是英语教师，还是两个孩子的母亲。

2. (通常指母亲)照看，抚养，养育
    If a woman mothers a child, she looks after it and brings it up, usually because she is its mother.

    e.g. Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family.
           科琳曾梦想抚养一群孩子。

mothering
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
养育孩子的现实经常与浪漫的理想大相径庭。

3. 爱护;溺爱
    If you mother someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child.

    e.g. She felt a great need to mother him...
           她迫切地感到要细心照料他。
    e.g. Stop mothering me.
           别再宠我了。

mother 单语例句

1. The business sector in Hong Kong is becoming more green conscious as corporate management tries to show greater care for Mother Nature.

2. " Fencing is a gentleman's game and I want my son to be a gentleman, " Wang's mother Yang Ning said.

3. A clandestine video porn shop was busted after a worried mother recently busted her young son watching a dirty movie.

4. Li and her mother found they couldn't stand up and reach the emergency button, because they had broken bones.

5. As she expects house prices to fall at the end of the year, she plans on holding off buying another apartment for her mother.

6. Mother kept buying more and more because she didn't want me to miss out on even one exercise.

7. The case was brought to court last April by the girl's birth mother.

8. Its weight is unknown, as it has been taken care of by the mother panda since birth.

9. Angelina Jolie asked her mother to fly in from Los Angeles to Paris so she can be by her side when Angelina gives birth.

10. Named Loki after the Norse God of Mischief, the infant primate has been raised by hand after his mother died soon after birth.

mother 英英释义

noun

1. a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation

    e.g. necessity is the mother of invention

2. a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

    e.g. the mother of three children

    Synonym: female parent

3. a term of address for a mother superior

4. a term of address for an elderly woman

5. a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria
    forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar

verb

1. make children

    e.g. Abraham begot Isaac
           Men often father children but don't recognize them

    Synonym: beget get engender father sire generate bring forth

2. care for like a mother

    e.g. She fusses over her husband

    Synonym: fuss overprotect