Maternal
[mə'tɜːn(ə)l] or [mə'tɝnl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characteristic of a mother; 'warm maternal affection for her guest'- Dorothy Sayers .
(adj.) relating to or derived from one's mother; 'maternal genes' .
西莉亚手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.
尤因整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Motherly.
布什校對
解釋/意思:
adj. belonging to a mother: motherly.—adv. Mater′nally.—n. Mater′nity the state character or relation of a mother: motherhood: a lying-in hospital.
手打:莉莲
例句/造句/用法:
- The broken-spirited, old, maternal grandfather was likewise subject to the little tyrant. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- So the maternal admonition seemed rather to fail of effect. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Idris stood at a window that over-looked the park; her maternal eyes sought her own children among the young crowd. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They were not thin hands, or small hands; but powerful, feminine, maternal hands. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mrs. March laughed, and smoothed down her maternal pride as she asked, Well, my swan, what is your plan? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It does my heart good to see them forget business and frolic for a day, answered Jo, who now spoke in a maternal way of all mankind. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Miss Ophelia had several times tried to awaken her maternal fears about Eva; but to no avail. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The real solicitude now awakened in the maternal bosom was not soon over. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I leave her to describe the circumstances (if she has not done so already) under which she introduced me to the object of her maternal care. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You should do just what your grandfather wishes, my dear boy, said Meg in her most maternal tone. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Good mothers are married over again at their daughters' weddings: and as for subsequent events, who does not know how ultra-maternal grandmothers are? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All through the stress of the struggle with him, she had been conscious of something faintly maternal in her efforts to guide and uplift him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- This was Mrs Plornish, and this maternal action was the action of Mrs Plornish during a large part of her waking existence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I didn't know what it was to be a mother; unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me, and so on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- That's exactly what Ma has been doing,' interposed Lavvy, over the maternal shoulder, 'ever since we got up this morning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Often with maternal affection she had figured their merits and talents exerted on life's wide stage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Her existence was a maternal caress. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Maternal feeling now awoke in my poor girl's bosom, and she asked: And Alfred? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
手打:莉莲