| 单词 | the father of something |
| 释义 | the father of something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe father of somethingthe father of somethingINVENTthe man who was responsible for starting somethingFreud is the father of psychoanalysis. → fatherExamples from the Corpusthe father of something• At another, he deals badly with his role as the father of a deaf son.• Tests to ascertain the father of the child.• If I hadn't run away and made good, you'd never have been the father of Lady Firth.• Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in 1856.• George Washington is the father of our country.• In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding.• He gently and rather apologetically wrote and sent to the father of the student the two letters of which complaint is made.• Lowe was the real father of modern computing and a very important figure in IBM's ranks. |
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