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单词 dad
释义
daddad /dæd/ ●●● S1 W3 noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINdad
Origin:
1500-1600 From a word used by very young children
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Dad, can I help?
  • Can I borrow your car, Dad?
  • My dad retired ten years ago.
  • Was your dad angry when you got home?
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But my dad wanted a son.
  • I remembered the old photo of Grandma Nell holding my five-year-old dad in that open-cockpit biplane.
  • If her mum was asking her dad then she was going.
  • Talk to your mom before your dad shows up.
  • Tell dad to bring your chair in here.
  • You've got a mom, a dad and a couple or three kids.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a male parent: · My father’s a doctor.· He’s a father of three.
informal used when talking to your father, or about someone’s father: · Can I borrow your car, Dad?· Her dad retired ten years ago.· My dad was in the army.
a name for father, which is used especially by young children or when you are talking to young children: · Where’s your daddy?· Daddy, can I have a drink, please?
American English informal (also pa old-fashioned) used when talking to your father, or about someone’s father: · I helped Pop fix the gate this morning.· Can I help, Pa?· He is in New York with his Pop’s credit card, eating all the ice cream and pizza the city has to offer.
old-fashioned informal used when talking to your father, or about someone’s father: · Papa had forbidden me to go.· She saw her papa’s face change at this news.
informal someone’s father – used when talking about him in a way that is not very respectful: · His old man wouldn’t let him use the car.
(also stepdad informal) a man who is married to your mother, who is not your father but often acts as your parent: · Her stepfather is really nice.
Longman Language Activatorfather
· My father's a doctor.father of · He's now the proud father of a three-week-old baby girl.· Larry Blake, a father of three children, was shot dead outside his home last night.
informal a name you use to talk to your father or to talk about someone else's father: · Was your dad angry when you got home?· Can I borrow your car, Dad?· My dad retired ten years ago.
a name for a father - used especially by young children or when you are talking to young children: · Where's your daddy?· Daddy, can I have a drink, please?· Go and ask Daddy if he'll give you a ride to school.
American informal a name you call your father: · I helped Pop fix the gate this morning.· Relax, Pop, I'll have the car back by midnight.
informal father - use this to talk about your father or someone else's father: · My old man never could understand why I married Doris.the old man (=my father): · I'm going to visit the old man next week.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· At first he talked about his father, a l 950s version of a deadbeat dad who seldom paid child support.· Advocates also said that the stereotype of the deadbeat dad as in jail or unemployed was a myth.
· A couple of years older than dad, she had lived in London for three decades, on and off.· I remembered the old photo of Grandma Nell holding my five-year-old dad in that open-cockpit biplane.· Surely, if i beg nicely, he will lend his old dad four hundred quid.· She still comes to see her old dad, my little girl.· My old dad got really wild if you said he was working-class.
VERB
· Socialism does not work. Ask your dad or any citizen of the Soviet Republic..· I remember asking my dad constantly to build me a hoop.· If her mum was asking her dad then she was going.· But Quigley was not in a mood to ask why my dad had returned to earth.· He wouldn't go back to those flats in a hurry; he'd ask Mum where his dad was.
· Despite encouragement, he still couldn't call his stepfather dad.· Jack liked him but he didn't love him yet and couldn't call him dad.· I called my mum and dad and asked if they could take me to the hospital.
· He scoops up the ball and sees John's dad a hundred feet away.· What you saw with dad is what you got.· He started to back away, just as he had when he saw my dad.· Straight home? she wondered, then decided she'd go down to the front and see if her dad was there.· Go and see your dad, ask this girl to come with you?· I am going to see my dad in London tonight.· I'd avoided stopping off to see mum and dad.
· And I couldn't talk to mum and dad.· They talked constantly about their dad, as though he were perfect.· Marion searched for him in the crowded room, and found him at last, talking to Sue's dad near the window.· I almost never talk to my dad so directly, and he sat down, my words pushing him into the recliner.· Zoe talks her dad into letting her have driving lessons but she and Janine drive Garry to distraction.
· We asked you to tell us why your dad was Top of the Pops and you kept those letters pouring in.· I told his dad that we could help him.· Don't be afraid to tell your mum and dad how you feel.· We'd better tell ... tell, tell, tell your mum and dad.· She can't tell her dad, so she calls Keith and he comes into the hospital.
informal father:  She lives with her mom and dad. Dad, will you help me?
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