Mother
['mʌðə] or ['mʌðɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; 'necessity is the mother of invention'.
(noun.) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); 'the mother of three children'.
(noun.) a term of address for a mother superior.
(noun.) a term of address for an elderly woman.
(noun.) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar.
(verb.) care for like a mother; 'She fusses over her husband'.
康妮手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
(n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
(n.) An old woman or matron.
(n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
(n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
(a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
(v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
(n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
(v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
整理:奥拉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Mamma, female parent, dam (applied to a beast).
a. [1]. Native, natural.[2]. Vernacular.
校對:罗伯特
解釋/意思:
n. a female parent esp. one of the human race: a woman in relation to her child: a matron: that which has produced anything: the female head of a religious house: a familiar term of address to an old woman.—adj. received by birth as it were from one's mother: natural: acting the part of a mother: originating.—v.t. to adopt as a son or daughter.—ns. Moth′er-church the church from which others have sprung; Moth′er-coun′try -land the country of one's birth: the country from which a colony has gone out; Moth′erhood state of being a mother; Moth′ering a rural English custom of visiting one's parents on Mid-Lent Sunday; Moth′er-in-law the mother of one's husband or wife.—adj. Moth′erless without a mother.—n. Moth′erliness.—adj. Moth′erly pertaining to or becoming a mother: like a mother: parental: tender.—ns. Moth′er-of-pearl′ the nacreous internal layer of the shells of several molluscs esp. of the pearl-oyster so called because producing the pearl; Moth′er's-mark a birth-mark; Moth′er-tongue a person's native language: a language from which another has its origin; Moth′er-wa′ter the residual liquid remaining after the chemical substances it contained have been crystallised or precipitated; Moth′er-wit native wit: common-sense; Moth′er-wort a labiate plant growing in waste places; Queen′-moth′er the mother of a reigning sovereign.—Mother Carey's chicken the stormy petrel or other bird of the same family; Mother-Hubbard a woman's loose flowing gown like that proper to the nursery heroine.—Every mother's son all without exception.
n. dregs or sediments as of vinegar.—v.i. to become concreted.—adj. Moth′ery.
整理:梅
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see your mother in dreams as she appears in the home, signifies pleasing results from any enterprise. To hold her in conversation, you will soon have good news from interests you are anxious over. For a woman to dream of mother, signifies pleasant duties and connubial bliss. To see one's mother emaciated or dead, foretells sadness caused by death or dishonor. To hear your mother call you, denotes that you are derelict in your duties, and that you are pursuing the wrong course in business. To hear her cry as if in pain, omens her illness, or some affliction is menacing you.
艾达校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Miss Vye's family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I had settled things with father and mother. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- His mother had died, years before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I haven't any sister, or father and mother either. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- His mother left the room; then, moved by insupportable regret, I just murmured the words Dr. Bretton. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Like some other mothers, whom I have known in the course of my life, Mrs. Markleham was far more fond of pleasure than her daughter was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If those who had bad fathers and mothers were bad themselves, they were hanged for that. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And say, mothers of America, is this a thing to be defended, sympathized with, passed over in silence? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They tarried not to bid their fathers and mothers good-bye, or any friend they knew. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I should think every young man would want to go, though it is hard for the mothers and sisters who stay at home, she added sorrowfully. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Mrs. Ferrars is one of the most affectionate mothers in the world. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Even those of us who regard ourselves as active in mothering the process and alert in detecting its growth are by no means constantly aware of any great change. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
整理:内莉