新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

father

英  [ˈfɑːðə]
    

[NOUN, VERB]

    NOUN. 名词
  • fathers

    1[C 可数名词] 父亲

    Your father is your male parent. You can also call someone your father if he brings you up as if he were this man.

    双语例句

    例:

    His father was a painter.

    他父亲是一位画家。

    例:

    He would be a good father to my children.

    他会成为我孩子们的好父亲。

    2[C 可数名词] 发明者 , 创始人

    The man who invented or started something is sometimes referred to as the father of that thing.

    双语例句

    例:

    Max Dupain, regarded as the father of modern photography.

    被认为是现代摄影之父的马科斯∙杜庞。

    VERB. 动词
  • fathers , fathering , fathered

    1[T 及物动词] 是…的父亲

    When a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and their child is born.

    双语例句

    例:

    She claims Mark fathered her child.

    她声称马克是她孩子的父亲。