mother
noun
verb
ˈmʌðə noun
1 a female parent of a child or animal 母亲，妈妈; 母兽，母畜，母禽
His mother and father are both doctors.
他的父母都是医生。
mother of two/three etc (mother of two/three etc children) 两个/三个等孩子的母亲
Janet is a full-time teacher and a mother of two.
珍妮特是个全职教师，还是两个孩子的母亲。
the relationship between mother and child
母亲和孩子之间的关系
Goodnight, Mother.
晚安，妈妈。
Mother said they’d met at university.
母亲说他们是在大学里认识的。
If food is scarce, the mother will feed the smaller, weaker chicks.
如果食物不多，鸡妈妈就喂较小较弱的小鸡。
mother cat/bird/hen etc
2
be (like) a mother to sb
to care for someone as if you were their mother 像母亲般照料某人
She’s like a mother to them. If they need anything she always helps out.
她就像他们的母亲一样，他们要是需要什么，她总是帮忙解决。
3
like a mother hen
if someone behaves like a mother hen, they try to protect their children too much and worry about them all the time 像只老母鸡〔指过分保护子女并时时为他们操心〕
4
learn/be taught sth at your mother’s knee
to learn something when you are a very young child 年幼时就学习/被教会某事
the prayers which he had been taught at his mother’s knee
他在母亲的膝边就学会的祷告
5
the mother of sth
a. the origin or cause of something b. a very severe or extreme type of something, usually something bad [非正式] 很严重 （极端 ）的某事 informal
Westminster is known as ‘the mother of parliaments’.
英国议会被认为是“议会之母”。
Necessity is the mother of invention (=people have good ideas when the situation makes it necessary) .
需要是发明之母。
I woke up with the mother of all hangovers.
我醒来时宿醉得很厉害。
6 something very large and usually very good [口，尤美] 大家伙〔一般指很好的事物〕 spoken especially AmE
a real mother of a car
名副其实的大汽车
7 MOTHERFUCKER 混账东西，杂种 AmE taboo spoken
8
Mother
used to address the woman who is in charge of a CONVENT 院长嬷嬷〔对女修道院院长的称呼〕
verb
9 to look after and protect someone as if you were their mother, especially by being too kind and doing everything for them 母亲般照管;〔尤指〕溺爱
I don’t like being mothered!
我不喜欢有人像妈妈一样管着我！