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a female parent of a child or animal; a person who is acting as a mother to a child 母亲；妈妈 I want to buy a present for my mother and father. 我想给爸爸妈妈买件礼物。 the relationship between mother and baby 母婴关系 She's the mother of twins. 她有一对双胞胎。 a mother of three (= with three children) 三个孩子的妈妈 a young/new/single mother 年轻/新/单身母亲 an expectant (= pregnant) mother 孕妇 Jenny is a stay-at-home mother of three. 珍妮是三个孩子的全职妈妈。 Affordable childcare is critical for working mothers. 负担得起的儿童保育对职业母亲至关重要。 She was a wonderful mother to both her natural and adopted children. 她对亲生的和领养的孩子一样好。 the mother chimpanzee caring for her young 照料着幼崽的母猩猩
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsa1, Life stagesa1The new candidate was raised by a single mother in South London. 新候选人是由伦敦南部的一位单身母亲抚养大的。 She acted as a surrogate mother to the brothers. 她充当兄弟俩的代理母亲。 Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone. 她母亲忧心如焚，在电话旁守了一个晚上。 She felt proud that she had raised four children as a lone mother. 她独自养育了 4 个孩子，为此她感到骄傲。 She inherited the urge to travel from her mother. 她继承了母亲爱四处游历的天性。 The boys were like their father, but Louise took after her mother. 男孩们长得像父亲，但路易丝像她的母亲。 The court decided she was an unfit mother. 法庭判定她作为母亲没有尽责。 caring for his sick mother 照顾他生病的母亲 his beloved mother 他挚爱的母亲 the proud mother of the bride 新娘自豪的母亲 This is my mother, Joan. 这是我妈妈，琼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lone
- single
- unmarried
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- resemble
- take after
- inherit something from
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the title of a woman who is head of a convent (= a community of nuns) （对女修道院院长的尊称）
Word OriginOld English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.
Idioms
at your mother’s knee
the mother of (all) something
necessity is the mother of invention
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a difficult new problem forces people to think of a solution to it 需求是发明之母
old enough to be somebody’s father/mother
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very much older than somebody (especially used to suggest that a romantic or sexual relationship between the two people is not appropriate) 论年龄足以当某人的爹／娘（尤指双方在爱情或性关系方面不相配）