【birth音标】 英[bɜ:θ] 美[bɜ:rθ]
【单词释义】 birth是什么意思：
n.出生；分娩；起源；出身
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] births
【birth形近词/近似词】
mirth n.[U]欢乐，欢笑
girth n.周长；腰围；（马等的）肚带，腰身
【单词例句】
◇ If I give birth to a little son, I will raise a white flag. If I give birth to a little daughter, I will raise a red flag, and then you should escape as fast as you can, and may God protect you.
如果我生下的是个小弟弟，我就升起一面白旗，你们就可以回来了。如果我生下的是个小妹妹，我就升起一面红旗，你们就赶紧远走高飞，愿上帝保佑你们。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ What the frog said did happen, and the queen gave birth to a girl who was so beautiful that the king could not contain himself for joy, and he ordered a great celebration.
过了一段时间，那只青蛙所预言的情况真的实现了，王后真的生下了一个非常漂亮的女儿。国王高兴得时时刻刻爱不释手，决定举行一个大型宴会。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ Cheered up by this news, biologists, in their turn, began to do some research to remove people’s puzzles—Now that there are some suitable conditions, does life really exist on this globe? Do they multiply by laying eggs or giving birth to babies?
受到这一消息的鼓舞，生物学家们接着开始了研究以解开人们的迷惑——既然有了适合的条件，生命真的存在于这个星球吗？他们是通过下蛋，还是产仔来繁殖后代的呢？
---- Explore MKII
◇ While you're not going to die over one unwashed blueberry, long-term pesticide consumption can increase your risk of cancer and cause birth defects, fertility issues, neurodegenerative disease, and immune system disease, according to Dr. Le.
黎博士指出，虽然你不会因为吃下一颗未洗的蓝莓而丧命，但长期摄入农药会增加你患癌症的风险，并导致出生缺陷、生育问题、神经退行性疾病和免疫系统疾病。
---- How to washing your fruits and veggies
◇ The increase, up from the current count of 7.7 billion people, is expected despite a continued decline in the global fertility rate, which has fallen from 3.2 births per woman in 1990 to 2.5 births per woman this year.
尽管全球生育率持续下降，但预计届时这一数字仍将远超目前的77亿人口。全球生育率从1990年的3.2下降到今年的2.5。
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ I want a wife who assumes the complete responsibility for birth control, because I do not want more children. I want a wife who will remain sexually faithful to me so that I do not have to clutter up my intellectual life with jealousies.
我希望有一个能负起计划生育全部责任的老婆，因为我不想要更多的孩子了。我希望有一个对我性专一的老婆，这样我就不会因为争风吃醋而影响学业了。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ Her parents could no longer keep the secret, but said that it had been heaven's fate, and that her birth had been only the innocent cause.
父母亲不好再对她隐瞒事情的真像。为了安慰她，他们说这一切都是上帝的意愿，她的出生降临都是上帝的安排，她是无罪的。
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ She gave birth to a beautiful son. The old mother quickly wrote this in a letter, giving the joyful news to the king.
后来姑娘果真生了个健康漂亮的男孩，国王年迈的母亲立刻将这一令人振奋的消息写在信上派人给国王送去。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ There she gave birth to the twins ,Apollo and Artemis.
在岛上,她生了孪生儿子阿波罗和阿尔特弥斯。
---- Apollo
◇ Some are addicted to cigarettes, only several packets of which will hurt their lungs and make them breathless quickly. Others can't quit drinking alcohol, whose harmful effects include causing young pregnant women to abort or give birth to abnormal babies.
有的对香烟上瘾，只要几包就会对他们的肺造成损害，使他们很容易就气喘吁吁；有的没法戒除酒精带来的不良后果，包括造成年轻的怀孕女性流产或生下不正常的婴儿；