mothers
[ˈmʌðəz]

n.

母亲( mother的名词复数 )；妈妈；根由；（对女修道院院长的尊称）

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C]母亲,妈妈 a female parent of a child or animal
2. [C][U]根由,根源 the cause and origin

英英释义

mother

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

    "the mother of three children"

    同义词：female parent

  • a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
  • a term of address for an elderly woman
  • a term of address for a mother superior
  • a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation

    "necessity is the mother of invention"

• v.
  • care for like a mother

    同义词：fussoverprotect

  • make children

    同义词：begetgetengenderfathersiregeneratebring forth

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• become mother当母亲
• bring out mother唤起了母爱
• lose one's mother失去母亲
• pester mother纠缠着母亲

形容词+～

• devoted mother一心为孩子的母亲
• doting mother溺爱的母亲
• expectant mother待产妇
• fond mother慈母
• foster mother养母
• indulgent mother宽容的母亲,溺爱子女的母亲
• spiritual mother精神源泉

～+介词

• mother of…的母亲,…的源泉
• mother to the poor贫民的慈母

词组短语

mother tongue母语；本国语言

mother liquor母液

mother nature大自然；自然的力量

mother earth（孕育万物的）大地

queen mother n. 太后；母后；皇太后

mother liquid母液

mother teresa特蕾莎修女

great mother伟大母亲（古代宗教神话中的女神）

mother's milk ◎母乳 , ◎[口语]生来就喜爱的东西[参见 suck in with one's mother's milk] , ◎[俚语]好酒，对健康有益的酒

mother country祖国；母国；发源地

biological mother生母；亲生母亲

surrogate mother n. 代孕母亲；替身母亲

mother cell母细胞

mother solution母液，母溶液

mother of god圣母玛利亚

mother in law婆婆；岳母

mother of pearl珍珠母；贝壳

expectant mother n. 孕妇；待产妇女

working mother职业妇女；职业母亲；工作母亲

mother wit n. 天生的智力

更多收起词组短语

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. I wonder when mother will ring?
   我不知道母亲什么时候会打电话来？
2. It happened that my mother was out that day.
   我母亲恰巧那天出去了。
3. He disobeyed his mother and went to the party.
   他不听母亲的劝告，参加了那次聚会。
4. My mother is a housewife.
   我妈妈是个家庭妇女。
5. The mother bade the child behave himself.
   妈妈叮咛孩子要守规矩。

用作形容词(adj.)

1. Mother love is the greatest in the world.
   世界上母爱是最伟大的。

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. My sister mothered a little baby two days ago.
   两天前我姐姐生了个孩子。
2. He likes to mother the toddlers.
   他喜欢像母亲般照管学步的小孩。
3. Mrs.Green mothered the lost children.
   格林太太慈母般照料那几个走失的孩子。

权威例句

Mothers, Babies and Health in Later Life
Of human bonding: newborns prefer their mothers' voices.
Pattern of malformation in offspring of chronic alcoholic mothers.
Postnatal Infectivity of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen-Carrier Mothers
Saving Mothers' Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006-2008. The Eighth Report of the Confidential Enquirie...
Impaired glucose tolerance in adolescent offspring of diabetic mothers. Relationship to fetal hyperinsulinism.
Genetic characterization and cloning of mothers against dpp, a gene required for decapentaplegic function in Drosophila melanogaster.
Long term mortality of mothers and fathers after pre-eclampsia: population based cohort studyPre-eclampsia and cardiovascular diseas...
Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers: a developmental model for understanding mechanisms of transmission.
Relation of the Course of HIV Infection in Children to the Severity of the Disease in Their Mothers at Delivery