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a person’s female child 女儿 We have two sons and a daughter. 我们有两儿一女。 a baby/teenage daughter 婴儿/十几岁的女儿 They have three grown-up daughters. 他们有三个成年的女儿。 She's the eldest daughter of an Oxford professor. 她是牛津大学教授的长女。 our younger/youngest daughter 我们的小女儿 Living alone and trying to bring up a small daughter is no easy task. 独自生活还要抚养一个小女儿并非易事。
Collocations Childrensee also god-daughter, granddaughter, stepdaughterTopics Family and relationshipsa1Children 孩子 Having a baby/child 怀孕 - want a baby/a child/kids
想要孩子 - start a family
生孩子 - conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
怀孕 - miss your period
月经未按期来 - become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
怀孕了；发现怀孕了 - have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
有一个宝宝／一个孩子／孩子／一个儿子／一个女儿／一对双胞胎／孩子 - have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
正常／历经艰难／意外怀孕；顺产；难产；在家中分娩 - be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
分娩；催产 - have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
流产；引起流产 - give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
生了一个孩子／一个宝宝／一个女儿／一个儿子／一对双胞胎
Parenting 养育；抚养；教养 - bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
抚养孩子 - care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
照顾小孩 - change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
换尿布；给婴儿换尿布 - feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
喂孩子；给孩子哺乳；用奶瓶喂养孩子 - be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
有权利休／正在休产假／陪产假 - go back/return to work after maternity leave
产假后回到工作岗位 - need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
需要／找到一个临时保姆／负担得起的高质量儿童保育 - balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
平衡／兼顾工作与照顾小孩／抚养小孩／家庭生活 - educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
教育孩子；给孩子家庭教育 - punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
惩罚／管教／娇惯孩子 - adopt a baby/child/kid
收养小孩 - offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
把小孩给人收养 - (especially British English) foster a child/kid
代养小孩 - be placed with/be raised by foster parents
被交给寄养父母；由寄养父母抚养
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baby
- infant
- newborn
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- have
- bear
- give birth to
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- grow up
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a woman who belongs to a particular place or country, etc. （某地、某国等的）妇女 one of the town’s most famous daughters 这座城镇最著名的女性之一
Word OriginOld English dohtor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dochter and German Tochter, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek thugatēr.