- [countable]
a person’s male child 儿子 their four-year-old son 他们四岁的儿子 my teenage/eldest son 我十几岁的/最大的儿子 her young/baby son 她年幼的儿子 We have two sons and a daughter. 我们有两个儿子，一个女儿。 They have three grown-up sons. 他们有三个成年的儿子。 In January 1816 she gave birth to a son, William. 1816年1月，她生了一个儿子，威廉。 She is survived by a son, Christopher. 她还有一个儿子克里斯托弗。 the birth/death of a son 儿子的出生/死亡 - son of somebody
He's the son of an Oxford professor. 他是牛津大学一位教授的儿子。 He was like a son to me. 对我来说，他像儿子一般。 Maine & Sons, Grocers (= the name of a company on a sign) 梅因父子杂货店
Collocations ChildrenChildren 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
Homophones son | sunson sun- son noun
Their youngest son is still living at home. 他们最小的儿子仍然住在家里。
- sun noun
Let's go for a picnic while the sun is shining! 让我们趁着阳光明媚去野餐吧！
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsa1Living alone and trying to bring up a young son is no easy task. 独自生活，还要养大年幼的儿子，这不是件容易的事。 The queen bore him four fine sons. 王后为他生了 4 个健康的男孩。 They welcomed me like a long-lost son. 他们就像欢迎失散多年的儿子一样欢迎我。 an illegitimate son of Louis XV 路易十五的非婚生子 Our oldest son is playing football. 我们的大儿子在踢足球。 his son from a previous marriage 他前妻生的儿子
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- baby
- newborn
- infant
- …
- have
- bear
- give birth to
- …
- grow up
- [singular] (informal)
a friendly form of address that is used by an older man to a young man or boy （年长者对年轻男子或男孩的爱称）孩子 - [countable] (literary)
a man who belongs to a particular place or country, etc. （某个地方、国家等的）男性成员，子孙 one of France’s most famous sons 法国最著名的人士之一 a native son of Philadelphia 费城本地人
- my son[countable] (formal)
used by a priest to address a boy or man （司铎对男子或男孩的称呼）孩子 - the Son[singular]
Jesus Christ as the second member of the Trinity 圣子（耶稣基督） the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit 圣父、圣子和圣灵
Word OriginOld English sunu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zoon and German Sohn, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek huios.
Idioms
somebody’s favourite son
a performer, politician, sports player, etc., who is popular where they were born 故乡的骄子（可指演员、政治家、运动员等） (in the US) a candidate for president who is supported by his or her own state in the first part of a campaign （美国大选第一阶段）本州支持的总统候选人
from father to son
from one generation of a family to the next 从父到子；世代相传
like father, like son
- (saying)
used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father 有其父必有其子
the/a prodigal (son)
a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home 回头的浪子；改邪归正的人