mother
noun /ˈmʌðə(r)/
/ˈmʌðər/
Idioms - a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child
母亲；妈妈 - I want to buy a present for my mother and father.
我想给爸爸妈妈买件礼物。 - the relationship between mother and baby
母婴关系 - She's the mother of twins.
她有一对双胞胎。 - a mother of three (= with three children)
三个孩子的妈妈 - a young/new/single mother
年轻/新/单身母亲 - an expectant (= pregnant) mother
孕妇 - Jenny is a stay-at-home mother of three.
珍妮是三个孩子的全职妈妈。 - Affordable childcare is critical for working mothers.
负担得起的儿童保育对职业母亲至关重要。 - She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children.
她对亲生的和领养的孩子一样好。 - the mother chimpanzee caring for her young
照料着幼崽的母猩猩
Topics Family and relationshipsa1, Life stagesa1- The new candidate was raised by a single mother in South London.
新候选人是由伦敦南部的一位单身母亲抚养大的。 - She acted as a surrogate mother to the brothers.
她充当兄弟俩的代理母亲。 - Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.
她母亲忧心如焚，在电话旁守了一个晚上。 - She felt proud that she had raised four children as a lone mother.
她独自养育了 4 个孩子，为此她感到骄傲。 - She inherited the urge to travel from her mother.
她继承了母亲爱四处游历的天性。 - The boys were like their father, but Louise took after her mother.
男孩们长得像父亲，但路易丝像她的母亲。 - The court decided she was an unfit mother.
法庭判定她作为母亲没有尽责。 - caring for his sick mother
照顾他生病的母亲 - his beloved mother
他挚爱的母亲 - the proud mother of the bride
新娘自豪的母亲 - This is my mother, Joan.
这是我妈妈，琼。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lone
- single
- unmarried
- …
- resemble
- take after
- inherit something from
- …
- I want to buy a present for my mother and father.
- the title of a woman who is head of a convent (= a community of nuns)
（对女修道院院长的尊称）
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.
Idioms
at your mother’s knee
- when you were very young
小时候；孩提时 - I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.
我小时候学过这些歌曲。
- I learnt these songs at my mother's knee.
the mother of (all) something
- (informal) used to emphasize that something is very large, unpleasant, important, etc.
非常大（或讨厌、重要等）的事情 - I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
我被困在一次超级严重的大塞车之中。
- I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.
necessity is the mother of invention
- (saying) a difficult new problem forces people to think of a solution to it
需求是发明之母
old enough to be somebody’s father/mother
- (disapproving) very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate)
论年龄足以当某人的爹／娘（尤指双方在爱情或性关系方面不相配）