mother

1. N-FAMILY Your mother is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your mother if she brings you up as if she was this woman. 母親

She sat on the edge of her mother's bed. 她坐在她母親的床邊。

She's an English teacher and a mother of two children. 她是一位英語(yǔ)老師，兩個(gè)孩子的母親。

2. N-FAMILY a female who has given birth to offspring 母(體)

3. V-T If a woman mothers a child, she takes care of it and brings it up, usually because she is its mother. 撫養(yǎng)

Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family. 科琳曾經(jīng)夢(mèng)想過(guò)要養(yǎng)育一大群孩子。

4. V-T If you mother someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child. 愛(ài)護(hù)

Stop mothering me. 別再像媽媽似的照顧我了。