father
n
1 male parent 父亲; 爸爸: That baby looks just like her father! 那婴儿真像她父亲.
You've been (like) a father to me. 您对我一直像父亲一样. =>App 8 见附录8.
2 (usu pl 通常作复数) ancestor 祖先
the land of our fathers 我们祖先的土地.
3 founder or first leader 创始人; 先驱; 鼻祖
city fathers 城市中德高望重的元老
the Pilgrim Fathers, ie English Puritans among the first European settlers in the USA 美国的开国先驱(最早自欧洲移居美洲的英国清教徒)
the Father of English poetry, ie Chaucer 英国诗歌之父(乔叟).
4 Father God 上帝; 圣父: Our (Heavenly) Father 我们的天父 * God the Father 上帝.
5 title of certain priests, esp those belonging to religious orders 神父.
6 (idm 习语) be gathered to one's fathers => gather. the child is father of the man => child. from ,father to `son from one generation of a family to the next 家族中从一代人至另一代人
The farm has been handed down from father to son since 1800. 该农场自1800年起一直代代相传. like ,father, like `son (saying 谚) a son's character, actions, etc resemble, or can be expected to resemble, his father's 有其父必有其子. old enough to be sb's mother/father => old. the wish is father to the thought => wish n.
father v [Tn]
1 be the male parent of (sb); beget 做(某人的)父亲; (作为父亲)生育(子女)
father a child (作为父亲)生个孩子.
2 (fig 比喻) create (sth); originate 发明(某物); 创始
father a plan, an idea, a project, etc 最先提出一项计画、 一种思想、 一项设计等.
3 (phr v) father sb/sth on sb say that sb is the father or originator of sb/sth 将某人说成是某人之父或某事物之创始人
It's not my scheme; try fathering it on somebody else. 这不是我的计策, 你去问问别人看是谁出的主意吧.
We often speak of tramps with contempt and put them in the same class as beggars, but how many of us can honestly say that we have not felt a little envious of their simple way of life and their freedom from care?