英语释义

1. a female parent
She's the mother of three small children.

2. a woman in authority specifically the superior of a religious community of women
Mother Teresa

3. an old or elderly woman
Mother Hubbard

4. source, origin
necessity is the mother of invention

5. maternal tenderness or affection
all my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears
— William Shakespeare

6. motherfucker

7. something that is an extreme or ultimate example of its kind especially in terms of scale
the mother of all construction projects the mother of all ocean liners

8. of, relating to, or being a mother

9. bearing the relation of a mother

10. derived from or as if from one's mother

11. acting as or providing parental stock —used without reference to sex

12. to give birth to

13. to give rise to produce

14. to care for or protect like a mother

15. mother of vinegar

16. to give birth to (a child)

17. to be or act as mother to (someone) to care for or protect (someone) like a mother

18. a female parent

19. a nun in charge of a convent

20. cause entry 1 sense 1, origin
Necessity is the mother of invention.

21. of or having to do with a mother
mother love

22. being in a relation suggesting that of a mother to others
our mother country

23. to be or act as a mother to

片语

Big Mothering伟大母亲般

Mothering Magazine育儿杂志

displaced mothering塞丝自己错置的母性

single mothering单身母亲

mothering plant母株

mothering cake母亲糕饼

mothering corral母仔栏

mothering sunday拜望双亲日（英国的旧母亲节，四旬节后第四个星期日）

mothering ability母性能力

英汉例句

• the english colonists settled in america discontinued the tradition of mothering sunday because of lack of time.

  后来，在美国定居的英国殖民者由于缺少时间停止了这项传统。

• what impact might tiger mothering have?

  虎妈的教养方式会产生什么样的影响？

• previous research has shown that bad rat mothering can be passed down through this kind of dna modification--but those changes are thought to be triggered specifically by maternal behavior.

  前述的研究仅表明母亲糟糕的抚育可以通过dna的表观遗传变化传给后代，但这些变化仅仅由母亲的抚育方式触发。

• 「it is certainly true that some issues when it comes to mothering become magnified, especially online, where everything can be anonymous, 」 says justine roberts, co-founder of mumsnet.

  mumsnet的共同创始人贾丝廷?罗伯茨说，「当夸大地提到母性时，尤其在什么都可匿名的网络上，肯定会有些问题。

• they adapted quickly to the new mothering style and grew up to tend carefully to their own offspring.

  它们很快适应了新的母爱特征，长大后对其子女也关爱有加。

• the psychological influences of mothering and notions of 「good」 or 「bad」 parents are stronger today than they have ever been.

  如今，母性和“好」「坏」家长概念对心理的影响比任何时候都强烈。

• back in 1982, the first piece of writing i ever sold was a poem called 「the miscarriage,」 which originally appeared in mothering magazine.

  回到1982年，我卖掉的第一首诗叫做「流产」，最先发表在《生育》杂志上。

• custom of celebrating mothering sunday died out almost completely by the 19th century.

  庆祝母亲节的习俗几乎完全消失了19世纪。

• on mothering sunday, the servants, who generally lived with their employers, were encouraged to return home and honor their mothers.

  在省亲节那一天,通常与雇主住在一起的仆人了,被劝说回家和他们的母亲团聚。

• in her book life after birth, kate figes links our worry about mothering to our personal experience of childhood.

  凯特?费吉斯在《出生后的生活》（lifeafterbirth）一书中将我们对母性的担忧与我们个人的童年经历联系起来。

• and with it, mothering has become one of the most contentious issues around.

  此后，母性成为我们所面对的最具争议性的问题。

• some of what is advocated in the tiger mothering book is consistent with good science, but some of it isn「t.

  这本虎妈育儿的书中有些内容是与科学有效的方法相一致的，有些则不是。

• and yet even the stern intendant of traditional academic values couldn」t quite bring himself to endorse the hard-ass asian mothering style.

  然而，即使是崇尚严格监管式教育的传统学者萨默斯也不能认同严厉的亚洲式教育方式。

• it was then called mothering sunday.

  它当时被称为妈妈的星期天。

• 「this survey is also to acknowledge and to show appreciation for friends, family who are mothers, as well as other important women who have had a mothering influence,」 said jackson.

  杰克森说：「还可以借此调查向做了母亲的朋友和家人、以及对你产生过母亲般影响的重要女人们表达谢意和感激之情。」

• but while 「my mothering instinct was to go over there and hover, 」 she says, she restrained herself while ella cried for a few moments, then joined her husband to pat ella「s back and soothe her.

  但是，她说，虽然做母亲的本能会促使她走过去表示关切，但她会努力克制自己，等艾拉哭一会儿之后，再和她的丈夫一起拍拍她的后背、安慰她。

• but the roots of mother」s day history can also be traced in uk where a mothering sunday was celebrated much before the festival saw the light of the day in us.

  但是，母亲节的历史根源可追溯到英国也如母亲节的庆祝活动多在节日前看到了美国光天化日之下。

• but paige's mothering instinct was on the alert.

  但paige母性的直觉向她发出了警报。

• legendarily beautiful, lispector embarked on a conventional life, marrying a diplomat and mothering two sons.

  里斯蓓克特有着传奇色彩的美貌，却过着平常人家的生活——她嫁给了一位外交官，生养着两个儿子。

相似词

maternal母亲的；母性的；母系的；母体遗传的

motherly母亲的；慈母般的