| 单词 | mother |
| 释义 | noun | verb mothermother1 /ˈmʌðɚ/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 1[countable] a female parent of a child or animal: My mother says I have to be home by nine o’clock. Mother just loved crossword puzzles. a mother hen and her chicks a young mother of two (=of two children)2be (like) a mother to somebody to care for someone as if you were his or her mother: She is like a mother to them. If they need anything, she always helps out.3mother hen someone who tries to protect her children too much and worries about them all the time4learn something at your mother’s knee to learn something as a very young child: She had learned the songs at her mother’s knee.5the mother of something the origin or cause of something: Necessity is the mother of invention.6the mother of all something informal something that is a very good or very bad example of its type: I woke up with the mother of all headaches.7[singular] spoken informal something that is very large, difficult, impressive, etc.: That’s a mother of a car.8Mother used to address the woman who is head of a convent [Origin: Old English modor] noun | verb mothermother2 verb [transitive] to take care of and protect someone or something in the way that a mother does: Brenda just tries to mother everyone. |
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