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parent

noun
 
🔊/ˈpeərənt/
🔊/ˈperənt/
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  1.  
     [usually plural] a person’s father or mother父亲；母亲
    • He's still living with his parents.他还和父母住在一起。🔊🔊
    • Sue and Ben have recently become parents.休和本最近当了爸爸妈妈了。🔊🔊
    • It can be difficult to be a good parent.成为好父母可能很困难。
    • her adoptive parents (= who have legally adopted her as their child)她的养父母
    • It's not easy being a foster parent (= who looks after a child for a period of time without legally adopting him/her) to these children.要成为这些孩子的寄养父母并不容易。
    • his biological/birth parents (= natural parents, not ones who adopt or foster)他的亲生/出生父母
    • Emma is a lone parent with two children.艾玛是一个有两个孩子的单亲父母。
    • More childcare options and more paid leave will improve the lives of working parents.更多的育儿选择和更多的带薪休假将改善在职父母的生活。
    see also co-parent, one-parent family, single parent, step-parent
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    • The study showed that children with involved parents do better at school.研究表明，和家长有更多时间互动的孩子在学校表现得较好。
    • They have just become the proud parents of a baby girl.他们刚有了一个小女孩，感到很自豪。
    • They may not be my biological parents but I consider them my real mum and dad.他们可能不是我的亲生父母，但我认为他们是我真正的父母。
    • Concerned parents want more information about the safety of these products.有关父母希望获得有关这些产品安全性的更多信息。
    • More and more women are caring for both young children and elderly parents.越来越多的妇女正在照顾幼儿和年迈的父母。
    • He was born in Montana to Greek immigrant parents.他出生在蒙大拿州，是希腊移民父母。
    • They are all the children of divorced parents.他们都是离异父母的孩子。
    • My parents' generation didn't worry about sitting their kids in front of the TV.我父母的这一代人不必担心将孩子坐在电视前。
    • She spends every Christmas at her parents' house.她每个圣诞节都在父母家度过。
    • It's important for parents and teachers to work together.父母和老师一起工作很重要。
    Topics Life stagesa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • married
    • unmarried
    • divorced
    • …
    parent + noun
    • company
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  2. (often used as an adjective常用作形容词) an animal or a plant which produces other animals or plants（动、植物的）亲本，亲代，父本，母本
    • the parent bird/tree亲代鸟；亲代树
  3. (often used as an adjective常用作形容词) an organization that produces and owns or controls smaller organizations of the same type创始机构；母公司；总部
    • a parent bank and its subsidiaries总行及其附属银行
    • The subsidiary eventually outgrew its parent company and took it over.子公司的发展最终超越了母公司，将母公司收购了。
    4. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin parent- ‘bringing forth’, from the verb parere. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.