a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
Verb:
bring up;
"raise a family"
"bring up children"
双语例句
1. Many children are now born into or raised in one-parent families.
现在很多孩子在单亲家庭中出生或成长。
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2. Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young.
亲鸟开始为幼鸟寻找食物。
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3. Ninety per cent of lone parent families are headed by mothers.
90%的单亲家庭由母亲持家。
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4. The offspring contain a mixture of the genetic blueprint of each parent.
子女身上遗传了父母双方的基因型板。
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5. She has an aged parent who's capable of being very difficult.
她有一个年迈的父亲，可能会很不好相处。
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用作名词 (n.)
My parents have gone to Hangzhou for holiday. 我父母已经去杭州度假了。
Being a parent can be hard work. 当父母可是件辛苦的事。
Ignorance is the parent of many evils. 无知是许多罪恶的根源。
Greed is the parent of many evils. 贪婪是万恶之根源。
用作动词 (v.)
We should parent children with both love and discipline. 我们应该用爱和管教来抚养孩子。
True albinos occur in about one in 10,000 births, after inheriting a rare and recessive albino gene from each parent. 在遗传了各别父母既稀少的又隐性的白子基因后，真实的白子以在一万胎之中大约一只来产生。
Prime Creator lets its creations be and learns about its own potential by watching what it has birthed, just as a wise parent learns from its children. 最初的创造者通过观察造物的产生来让他的造物具有和学习他自己的潜力，正如一位聪明的父亲学习它的孩子。
用作名词 (n.)
My parents forbid me from having wine and cigarettes. 我父母不许我抽烟喝酒。
My parents have consented. 我父母已经同意了。
My parents often stopped me doing things I liked. 父母时常制止我做我所喜欢做的事情。
Both of her parents teach at a middle school. 她的父母都在一个中学任教。
Her parents brought her up to be polite. 她的父母把她培养成有礼貌的人。
That girl's health concerned her parents. 那个女孩的身体状况令她的父母担忧。
She spent three years at college, scraping along on an allowance from her parents. 她靠父母的津贴勉勉强强地在大学里度过了三年。
She still lives on her parents. 她仍依靠父母生活。
His parents don't allow him out on Sunday. 他父母不许他星期天外出。
He was always a burden to his parents. 他一直是父母的沉重负担。
His unkind behaviour caused his parents a great deal of pain. 他不厚道的行为令他的父母极度痛苦。
The student's failing grades troubled his parents deeply. 这个学生考试常不及格,使他的家长深为忧虑。
He welcomed us and explained where his parents had gone. 他对我们表示欢迎,并告诉我们他父母到哪里去了。
As an only child he was the idol of his parents. 作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
The parents were happy at the happy marriage of their daughter. 父母为女儿美满的婚姻而感到愉快。
Pride is the parent of all evils. 骄傲乃万恶之源。
Our club is the parent association and there are now four others like it. 我们的俱乐部是始创协会,现在又有四个类似的俱乐部。
用法讲解
n. (名词)
parent指父亲或母亲,复数parents指“双亲”。但在儿童语言中,表示“双亲”用father and mother比用parents更常见。
