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mother

英 ['mʌðə] 美['mʌðɚ]

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n. 母亲；大娘；女修道院院长
vt. 生下；养育；像母亲般关怀或照管
adj. 母亲的；出生地的

考试真题

Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother's personality may also help determine your longevity.

The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility.

That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life spans.

Mothers' influence on children may last longer than fathers'.

Children's personality characteristics are invariably determined by their mothers.

But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when they arrived, though the visit has been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents.

A friend recently took her mother to visit an expensive assisted living / nursing home near my town.

Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

The first person I told was my mother.

The criticism the author received from his mother changed him as a person.

The author's mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.

The author looks upon his mother as his most demanding and caring instructor.

She was also my mother.

My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.

My mother was well covered on this count.

My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself.

In any event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.

I'm a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist.

But perhaps I missed something important in my mother's lessons about creativity and perfection.

My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective ( ' , 内省的 ) descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.

His mother’s strategy worked.

His mother, who had only a third-grade education, worked two jobs cleaning bathrooms.

His mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.

Her mother was often ill, and so from the age of two her father took her with him to work and taught her about stocks and shares.

He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he had been born

She tenderly looked after her sick mother.

One mother said that before her daughter was involved in this project, she would not even pour a weed.

Her friend, Pat, the divorced mother of three, is struggling to make ends meet

John's been looking after his mother in the hospital.

He lost his mother two weeks ago

I have an elderly mother and I'm worried about her going on a plane.

What does the man want to know about his mother

I'm sorry you feel that way, but my mother insists that he come.

Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and

Tom does not think a babysitter can replace a mother and thinks it's a bad idea for the children to spend so much time with someone who's not part of the family.

A baby-sitter is no replacement for a mother

A 16-year-old asked a stranger at a grocery store to buy him and his mother some food in exchange for carrying the man's groceries to his car.

A wonderful bond formed between the two, and within a couple of weeks, the stranger named White helped raise $190,000 on the website to support the Memphis teenager and his disabled mother.

But the mother said she and other parents were never told about the problem.

He wants to work and help his mother financially.

his mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.

his mother, who had only a third-grade education, worked two jobs cleaning bathrooms.

If you were like most children, you probably got upset when your mother called you by a sibling's name.

I'm a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist .

In any event, my mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flawless essay could be.

like her mother, Irene combined family with career.

like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband Frederic in 1935, for producing new radioactive elements.

Locked in hot kitchens, Careme created his four "mother sauces".

My dancing life began not because I wanted to do it, but because my mother was sick and tired of seeing me running around after school doing nothing.

My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter.

My mother, who is just shy of five feet tall, is normally incredibly soft-spoken, but on the rare occasion when she got angry, she was terrifying.

The first person I told was my mother.

This is the lesson I took from my mother: If perfection were possible, it would not be motivating.

Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed blood cancer because of exposure to radiation.

witnesses said people were looking on in horror, as the child's mother, identified by sources as Maria Samara, stood frozen in shock.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences: not for the child,but for the mother.

The video camera that one single mother bought for a special occasion, for example, is not much fun now.

No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

Prevalence of single mothers ( ' , where correlation is strong, but negative) 3.

She used to abuse her children when she was a young mother.

Mothers are far more likely than fathers to take advantage of this law,But extended leaves and part-time employment are known to be harmful to careers—for both genders.

When the Pew Research Center recently asked American parents to identify their"ideal"life arrangement,47 percent of mothers said they would prefer to work park-time and 20percent said they would prefer not to work at all

Most mothers do not aspire to (向往) elite,competitive full-time positions: the Swedish policies have given them the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they prefer.

imagination is the mother of invention

He tells the story of a patient, a first-time mother who complained that her young son was always clinging to her, wrapping himself around her legs wherever she went

A mother who is always complaining about being overweight or old sends the message that women are supposed to be thin and young.

I really can't let my mother know my true feelings.

Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are common attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.

I almost missed it, but my mother just happened to be watching at home and gave me a call.

She forgot to call her mother

Her mother is a friend of Prof. Smith's. Smith's.

She is excited to spend more time with her mother.

Tony's mother has invited me to dinner.

Ask Tony to convey thanks to his mother

Tell Tony's mother that she eats no meat.

He wasn't there long though because his mother passed away just four years later.

Bria Dunham, a mother in Somerville, Massachusetts, was so excited to watch a moment of brotherly bonding while her first-grader and baby took a bath together that she snapped a few photos.

But it just reminded me of the roasted ham my mother usually puts on the dinner table at Christmas.

He's cut back on medications and he no longer helps support his disabled mother.

It’s the mother of all disaster drills for what could be the worst disaster in American history.

When considering the amount of insurance for the mother with dependent children, substitute child care is a need that should be planned for until the children can care for themselves.

When her mother was interviewed, three weeks after her daughter's birth, she was asked if she was prepared for what might be a daunting task caring for her.

When the children are young, and depend upon the family for financial needs, families with modest incomes have difficulty providing enough life insurance to protect the mother and children.

A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

According to the card, if you are unable to go, you can contact Alice's mother.

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

After her mother read the poem to her, the writer felt sad at first.

After questioning 1, 000 mothers with children under 18, it found that , on most days, mums started their routine work at 7am and finished at around 11pm.

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

Because it was getting dark,and she didn't want her mother to worry about her.

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

Betty Byrnes remembered when her mother did not have time to wash all the dishes before an inspection.

But, if I could explain, my mother doesn't want me to go overseas.

By analysing the numbers, it found the average mother works 119 hours a week, 40 of which would usually be paid at a standard rate and 79 hours as overtime.

By that time, the panda no longer needed its mother for food.

Dario and his mother loved their new apartment.

Dario's mother asked the building superintendent (管理员) if he knew anything about it.

Daughter elisabeth explains, "our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace."

Embryonic learning helps mother birds to identify the baby birds which fit the environment better.

Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children.

Even president obama's mother-in-law, marian Robinson, has agreed to leave Chicago and into the White House to help care for her granddaughters.

Failure is the mother of success.

Gilbert, presented Dario's mother with a book of piano music by Chopin.

He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a cake for his mother and some seeds for his bird.

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

He was forced by his mother to read it.

Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby.

Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad, she wouldn't feel as bad.

Her mother was reading it with interest.

His effort to reunite families with lost medals began with a christmas gift from his mother, a purple heart with the name corrado.

How much would a mother earn a year if working as the prime minister?

I never told my mother about my "miraculous" experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year.

I rode hard and fast home to tell my mother about this disaster.

I think that's a normal reaction for mothers.

I voiced my biggest concern to my mother.

Inside were the "verbs" shirt and a note from Freddy's mother.

It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

It was summer and, one day, my mother drove me to the bike shop to get a tire fixed---and there it was in the window.

Lee was very happy to see his mother taken good care of at home.

Like many military medals, the one Zac's mother had found was a family treasure.

Looking at the beef being cooked on the stove, the mother pictured the whole family having meals together.

Molly, part-time programmer, high school basketball player, new mother.

Mothers' devotion to children can hardly be calculated.

Mothers have long known that their home workload was just as heavy as paid work.

Mothers' importance shows in family all year long.

Mothers' labour is of a higher value than it is realised.

Mothers should balance their time for work and rest.

Mothers should be freed from housework for social life.

Mothers' working hours should be largely reduced.

Much to the family's surprise, Dennis stuck to his promise! He turned up at the hospital bearing gifts for the new mother lindsey and her baby boy.

My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out.

My mother bought the beautiful basket and put it safely in some hiding place I couldn't find.

My mother will be living alone most of the time for three years in my absence.

On mu recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by its mother.

One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer.

One day, Glenn Furst's mother put oil on the kitchen floor just before the inspector entered their house.

One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown winnipeg.

One early morning, I went into the living room to find my mother reading a thick book called best loved poems to read again and again.

She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry.

She grew up in one of jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers.

She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people since they first saw the homeless man.

She refused to live with male cranes, and even had a reputation for killing some of them, which made it impossible for her to become a mother.

She wanted to be polite to her mother.

She was a very caring/careful mother.

So when his mother gave him the medal, he knew right away what he had to do.

The author's mother read the same book.

The author's mother rewarded him with books.

The author's mother told him to borrow a book in order to help cure him of his reading problem.

The biggest challenge for most mothers is from emotional demand.

The emotional, physical and mental energy mothers devote to their children can be never-ending, but children are also sources of great joy and happiness.

The kids were very friendly with her and even looked up to her as if she were their own mother.

The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does.

The mother raised her children in an unusual way.

The sacrifices mothers make are huge but worthwhile.

The study looked at the range of jobs mothers do, as well as the hours they are working, to determine the figure.

The study shows mothers matter all year long and not just on mother's day.

The writer's mother liked to read "patty poem" probably because it gave her a hint of what would happen.

Then, after two and a half years, the mother drove the young panda away.

There they joined danny's mother, diana, who owned a small itAlian sandwich shop.

This brief visit with mother nature cost me two days off from work, recovering from a bad case of sunburn and the doctor's bill for my son's food poisoning.

To calculate just how much mothers would earn from that labour, it suggested some of the roles that mums could take on, including housekeeper, part-time lawyer, personal trainer and entertainer.

To my mother, the poem revealed a parent's affection when her child grows up and leaves.

Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket.

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

When the inspector extended his hand to greet Glenn's mother, he slipped on the freshly oiled surface.

When/if it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats, the mother continued to care for the young panda for more than two years.

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

Yet two years before Dicken’s birth, his mother’s father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

Dicken’s mother supposedly came from a more respectable family.

Dickens' mother supposedly came from a more respectable family.

In it, a mother is asked to interact with her child in a normal way before putting on a blank expression and not giving them any visual social feedback.

millennials remember their father and mother both were laid off.

This mutual gaze is a major part of the attachment between mother and child.