Birth
[bɜːθ] or [bɝθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the event of being born; 'they celebrated the birth of their first child'.
(noun.) a baby born; an offspring; 'the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births'.
(noun.) the time when something begins (especially life); 'they divorced after the birth of the child'; 'his election signaled the birth of a new age'.
桃瑞丝整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
(n.) See Berth.
手打:西格蒙德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Nativity, coming into life.[2]. Lineage, extraction, descent, race, family, line, ancestry.
弗朗辛校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Parentage, extraction, nativity, family, race, origin, source, rise, lineage,nobility
ANT:Death, extinction, plebeianism
杰里手打
解釋/意思:
n. a ship's station at anchor.
n. the act of bearing or bringing forth: the offspring born: dignity of family: origin.—n. Birth′day the day on which one is born or the anniversary of that day.—adj. relating to the day of one's birth.—ns. Birth′day-book a book in diary form in which the birthdays of one's friends are entered in their autographs; Birth′dom (Shak.) birthright; Birth′-mark a peculiar mark on one's body at birth; Birth′night the night on which one is born or the anniversary of that night; Birth′place the place of one's birth; Birth′right the right or privilege to which one is entitled by birth: native rights.—adj. Birth′-strang′led (Shak.) strangled in birth.—n. Birth′-wort a genus of perennial plants formerly used medicinally in cases of difficult parturition.
編輯:梅根
娱乐性解釋/意思：
For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child, great joy and a handsome legacy is foretold. For a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover.
校對:伦道夫
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis who wrote in the tenth century avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
錄入:雷内
娱乐性解釋/意思：
An aid to life, discovered by Woman. Higher preferred.
克莱德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Contents of chapter, “His birth and estate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was voted low to sneer at Dobbin about this accident of birth. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Bring writing materials when you come next to my cell, and within a few hours we shall see you garbed in a style befitting your birth and carriage. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Birth, abilities, and education, had been equally marking one as an associate for her, to be received with gratitude; and the otherwhat was she? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- From the hour of her birth she has never been known to do anything for herself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Yes, thou shalt revisit the land of thy birth, I thought, as I looked invidiously on the airy voyager; but we shall, never more! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- My opponent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen by adoption) and carried off the prize. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In their own estimation they were aliens in the country which had given them birth. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And this lawful use of them seems likely to be often needed in the regulations of marriages and births. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Now this number represents a geometrical figure which has control over the good and evil of births. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and C?sarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- To the book of Genesis the reader must go to read how Abraham, being childless, doubted this promise, and of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For when your guardians are ignorant of the law of births, and unite bride and bridegroom out of season, the children will not be goodly or fortunate. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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