2021.07.30 18:03
如果让你用英文叫"爸爸",究竟是用 "father" 还是"dad"呢?这两个单词难道有什么区别吗?一般人能想出来的差别,大概就是"father"的表达更加书面化,而"dad"的表达更加口语化吧?其实除此之外,这两个单词还有一些其他的差别,考试的时候可不要乱用哦!来和新东方在线雅思一起来看看。
Father
这个单词,在牛津词典里一共有5个英文释义:
1、a male parent of a child or an animal; a person who is acting as the father to a child
父亲,主要强调的是血缘关系和家庭成员关系
2、fathers : a person's ancestors (= people who are related to you who lived in the past)
书面表达,当复数时还可表示你的祖先
3、father (of something):the first man to introduce a new way of thinking about something or of doing something
创始人,奠基者
4、used by Christians to refer to God
用来指代基督教里的上帝
5、(abbreviation Fr):the title of a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church
指代神父(可缩写为Fr)
由于"father"用在比较正式的场合,所以父亲节我们称之为"Father's Day"。而"father"这六个字母背后的含义也特别暖心图片:
f——family 【家】
a——action 【行动】
t——teacher 【老师】
h——hero 【英雄】
e——every 【所有的】
r——road 【道路】
Dad
这个单词在牛津词典里的释义只有1个:
(informal) (often used as a name) father
即口语化表达,用来称呼父亲。
例句:
Please get up and play with me, Dad!
爸爸,起床跟我一起玩吧。
其它表达
其实"爸爸"的英文表达,除了"father" 和" dad",还有几种可以称呼的方式:
Daddy
a name for father, which is used especially by young children or when you are talking to young children
当小朋友叫爸爸的时候的语气,或当你跟小朋友说话时称呼爸爸。
Pop
American English (informal) (also pa old-fashioned) used when talking to your father, or about someone's father
口语化的美式英语,或者也可以直接叫"pa",当你叫你自己爸爸或者其他人的爸爸时可用。
Papa
(old-fashioned informal) used when talking to your father, or about someone's father
比较老派的一种口语表达,当你叫自己爸爸或者其他爸爸时可用。
somebody's old man
(informal)someone's father – used when talking about him in a way that is not very respectful
口语化表达,表示一种不太尊敬的语气,大概就相当于中文里的"糟老头子"。
Stepfather
a man who is married to your mother, who is not your father but often acts as your parent
继父,养父
这么看来,如果下次再有兄弟姐妹想要让你叫ta爸爸,你可以用"You are my old man" 来表达,显得又洋气又讽刺。
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