【mother音标】 英[ˈmʌðə(r)] 美[ˈmʌðər]
【单词释义】 mother是什么意思：
n.母亲，妈妈；女修道院院长；大娘
vt.像母亲般地照顾；养育；生下；溺爱
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] mothers [第三人称单数] mothers
[单词现在分词] mothering
[单词过去式] mothered
[单词过去分词] mothered
【关联词/派生词】
motherland n.祖国
motherhood n. [U] 母亲身份，母性
【单词例句】
◇ One day her mother said to her, "Come Little Red Cap. Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother. She is sick and weak, and they will do her well.
一天，妈妈对小红帽说：“来，小红帽，这里有一块蛋糕和一瓶葡萄酒，快给奶奶送去，奶奶生病了，身子很虚弱，吃了这些就会好一些的。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ There once lived a cute lovable girl named Cinderella. But one day a misfortune came upon her. Cinderella's mother was ill and soon died. Every day Cinderella cried so sadly.
很久以前，有一个可爱的小女孩名叫灰姑娘。但有一天，不幸降临在她身上。灰姑娘的母亲病了，很快便去世了。灰姑娘每天都哭得很伤心。
---- Cinderella
◇ It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were not of much use. They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along at a terrible rate.
当她离家出门的时候，脚上的确穿着一双拖鞋的，但是那是一双相当大的拖鞋 —— 的确太大了，那是她妈妈以前穿的。这可怜的小家伙在匆忙横穿马路的时候，两辆马车飞快地闯过来，吓得她把拖鞋跑丢了。
◇ The mother sat and mourned the entire day, until the youngest son —— who was always with her, and who was named Benjamin after the Bible —— said to her, "Dear mother, why are you so sad?"
做母亲的现在整天坐在那里伤心，终於有一天，一直和她呆在一起的最小的儿子——她给他起了个《圣经》上的名字便雅明——问她：“亲爱的妈妈，你为甚么这样忧伤？”
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ "Ah! we shall soon see that!" thought the old Queen-mother; however, she said not a word of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom,took all the bed-clothes off the bed, and put three little peas on the bedstead.
“是的，这点我们马上就可以考查出来。”老皇后心里想，可是她什么也没说。她走进卧房，把所有的被褥都搬开，在床榻上放了三粒豌豆。
---- The Real Princess
◇ On the very day her mother was buried, Karen received the red shoes, and wore them for the first time.
在她的妈妈入葬的那天，她得到了这双红鞋。这是她第一次穿。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ "I actually found that day really hard. I ran myself ragged," laughs Taylor, who is a solo mother. "I hadn't yet programmed that routine into my life. I thought: I don't know when the next one of these is coming, I better get everything done. I don't think I did it well, but heck it was a productive day!"
身为单身母亲的泰勒大笑着说：“事实上，我觉得第三天很难熬。我把自己累坏了。我还没有将这种长周末纳入常规生活。我在想，不知道下一个长周末会是什么时候，所以我最好把一切事情都干完。我觉得自己干得不够好，但这一天还真是非常高效！”
---- New Zealand employees try four-day week
◇ My mother isn't speaking to my father?She hasn't spoken to him in five years,and for that,my father is truly grateful?
母亲不能和父亲说话了。过去的五年中，她从未开口与他说话，然而，父亲仍为此充满感激。
---- To Love Enough
◇ I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.
我已为人妻，又作了人母，应该称作妇人了。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ "You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness."
年轻女子微笑着回答：“一分钱也不用付。我妈妈教导我，施以爱心，不图回报。”