mother
n. 母亲, 修女院长 vt. 产生, 照看, 收养
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教材释义与例句
生下；养育；像母亲般关怀或照管
to look after and protect someone as if you were their mother, especially by being too kind and doing everything for them
释义与例句
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1.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
母亲
母
妈妈
娘
妈
阿妈
依妈
依奶
娘奶
姆妈
娘亲
阿姆
I am visiting my mother today.
The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
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2.
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.
He had something of his mother in him.
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3.
A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
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A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
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A female ancestor.
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6.
A source or origin.
比喻Near-synonym: matrix
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
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Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
Near-synonym: Big One
1991, January 17, Saddam Hussein, Broadcast on Baghdad state radio. The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun.
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8.
A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
过时Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
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A term of address for one's wife.
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10.
Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
比喻Near-synonyms: matron, matriarch
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11.
Any person or entity which performs mothering.
比喻Judges 5:7, KJV. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Galatians 4:26, KJV. Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
pieces of mother ; adding mother to vinegar
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13.
A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
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The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
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The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
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Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
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A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
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A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
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1.
Motherfucker.
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2.
A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
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Alternative form of moth-er.
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1.
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
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2.
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
待之如母
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3.
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
及物mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
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To develop mother.
不及物
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother From Middle English moder, from Old English mōdor, from Proto-West Germanic *mōder, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr. Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and matter. Some have proposed that the "dregs" sense is from Middle Dutch modder (“filth”), from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), but modder is not known in this meaning. On the other hand, words for "mother" have developed the secondary sense of "dregs" in several Romance and Germanic languages; compare Dutch moer, French mère de vinaigre, German Essigmutter, Italian madre, Medieval Latin māter, and Spanish madre.
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