| 单词 | parent |
| 释义 | parent (peərənt ) Word forms: parents , parenting, parented 1. countable noun [usually plural] A1 Your parents are your mother and father, or someone who looks after you as a parent would. Children need their parents. This is where a lot of parents go wrong. When you become a parent, the things you once cared about seem to have less value. 2. verb To parent someone is to raise them as your child. Many young parents lack family support or were not parented well themselves. [be VERB-ed] As an army wife, she has often parented solo. [VERB adverb] There are many good ways to parent. [VERB adverb] She admits that she struggled to parent the girls alone. [VERB noun] 3. See also foster parent, one-parent family, single parent 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] An organization's parent organization is the organization that created it and usually still controls it. Each unit including the parent company has its own, local management. ...the zoo's parent body, the Zoological Society of London. 5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] The parent animal, plant, or organism of a particular animal, plant or organism is the one that it comes from or is produced by. Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young. Quotations: Honour thy father and thy mother Bible: Exodus Parents love their children more than children love their parents Auctoritates Aristotelis Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive themA Woman of No Importance The most difficult job in the world is not being President. It's being a parent Parents ... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early yearsA Buyer's Market The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children Collocations: both parents Children need both parents. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Maybe you grew up with one or both parents being anxious and fearful. The Sun (2014) Some children lost both parents to disease. The English Civil War: A People's History (2006) Parent permission required to activate free play account. The Sun With parent permission, 11th and 12th grade students may leave campus during their lunch breaks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His grandfather, with his parents permission, dedicated his life to the church at his birth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They asked the servicemens parents permission to use their sons personal data. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Much of the work involves custody and access disputes when parents separate. Times, Sunday Times Much of the work involves private law action, such as residence and access disputes when parents separate. Times, Sunday Times Did his parents separate or did some other experience make him feel vulnerable? The Sun Campaigners and fathers' groups want 'shared residency' to become the norm after parents separate and hope that the family law review will support that when it reports next year. Times, Sunday Times Both parents watch over the eggs and raise the wyrmling until it reaches adulthood, whereupon the parents separate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We think we can put the measures in place to reassure parents and staff that it's the right thing to do. The Sun Testing will be rolled out in all schools in an effort to reassure parents. The Sun They said, however, that they hoped it would reassure parents. Times, Sunday Times The council sought to reassure parents yesterday that it was not proposing to clamp errant prams or issue parking tickets. Times, Sunday Times His staff have to have the knowledge to reassure parents, and instruct them on what items are appropriate for any given age. Times, Sunday Times We urge parents to cooperate with us in making this a success. SA Star Researchers urge parents to keep the results in perspective. Times, Sunday Times She will urge parents to ban smartphones from the dinner table and before bedtime and limit screen time to two hours in a row. Times, Sunday Times When she first hit our screens she was a working parent, just as a generation of dual-income households came of age. Times,Sunday Times If you're a working parent, an after-school club can be a life-saver. Times, Sunday Times But now every working parent can breathe a sigh of relief. The Sun Being a working parent this would put me in an impossible situation. Times, Sunday Times I feel the same guilt as every working parent. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 父亲或母亲 Japanese: 親 |
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