father [ 'fa:ðə] n.父亲；神父；创始人
father ['fa:ðə] n. 父亲
father ['fa:ðə] n.父，上层(树节点的)
You are your father's son. 你长得很象你父亲.
一位父亲能为他的孩子做的最要紧的事是爱他们的母亲。
The most important thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.
三纲：君为臣纲，父为子纲，夫为妻纲 three cardinal guides: ruler guides subject, father guides son husband guides wife
The father rewarded the little boy for cleaning the room.
小男孩因为打扫了房间而受到父亲的奖励。
While I was cleaning the house, I came across some old baby pictures of my father that I had never seen before.
在打扫房间时，我偶然发现了几张过去从来未见过的，我父亲还是婴儿时的老照片。
The senator's son traded on his father's name when he ran for mayor.
参议员的儿子在竞选市长时利用了他父亲的名望。
As usual, Sandy's music made her father's stomach feel ill.
与往常一样，桑迪的音乐使她爸爸忧虑不安。
As usual, Sandy's music made her father's stomach feel uneasy.
与往常一样，桑迪的音乐使她爸爸忧虑不安。
Father saw to it that much of my spare time was not wasted.
父亲极力注意不让我的许多业余时间白白浪费。
The father threatened to punish the child if the child did not obey his orders.
父亲威胁说要是孩子不听话，就要给以惩罚。
Peculiarly, he never asked his father to help him.
奇怪的是，他从不叫他父亲帮忙。
Don't interrupt Father when he's occupied with his newspaper.
父亲看报的时候不要去打扰他。
I admired my father, and his work filled me with wonder and curiosity.
我非常敬佩我的父亲，我对他的工作充满了惊讶和好奇。
My father face glowed with satisfaction when he saw my college grades.
父亲看到我的学校成绩时，脸上露出满意的神情。
I am happy to learn that my father's health is making slow but stable progress.
我很高兴地获悉，父亲的健康状况正缓慢而稳定地得到改善。
I admired my father and his work filled me with curiosity.
我敬慕我的父亲，我对他的工作充满了好奇。
With careful treatment, your father's condition should improve.
经过精心治疗，你父亲的病情会好转的。
He was so deep in his reading that he wasn't aware his father had entered.
他读书很专心，连父亲进门都不知道。
He says that the death of his father 18 months ago has given him a new perspective on life.
他说18个月前父亲去世使他对生活有了新的看法。
Sandy's music made her father upset.
桑迪的音乐使她父亲不安。
Sandy's music upset her father.
桑迪的音乐使她父亲不安。
The father thinks what Sandy disagrees with him about is closely identified with the generation gap.
父亲认为桑迪与他格格不入之处同代沟密切相关。
Sandy rebels at her father's idea of not listening to rock music.
桑迪不同意她父亲不去听摇滚音乐的主张。
Sandy's music upset her father.
桑迪的音乐使她父亲感到不安。
I'm not acquainted with her father.
我不认识她父亲。
The guests were mostly her father's friends.
这些客人主要是她父亲的朋友。
He is the very image of his father.
他的长相酷似他父亲。
You can refer to your close family, especially your mother and father, as your folks.
你可以说你的家人，尤其是父母，是你的亲属。
He is the very imag of his father.
他的长相酷似他父亲。
At the sound of the train, the children jumped with joy, as they knew they could see their father soon.
听到火车声，孩子们欣喜雀跃，因为他们知道很快能见到他们的父亲了。
You can refer to your close family, especially your mother and father, as your folks.
你可以把你的家人，尤其是父母，说成是你的亲属。
She is indifferent to her father's words.
她对父亲的话无动于衷。
Sandy's indifference to what her father had said annoyed her mother.
桑迪对父亲的话毫不在意，这使她母亲生气了。
Sandy's indifference to what her father had said annoyed her mother.
桑迪对父亲的话毫不在意，这使她母亲生气了。
My father could not help commenting on Linda's indifference toward her brother's tears.
琳达对她兄弟在流泪无动于衷，我父亲忍不住说了她几句。
I got the new car at my father's expense.
我用我爸爸的钱买了这辆新车。
His father told me not to believe in people readily.
他父亲告诉我别轻信别人。
She succeeded in transforming him from a hard drinking man into a devoted husband and father.
她成功地将他从一个酒鬼改变成了一个尽心的丈夫和父亲。
In five years the stress of her father's sickness transformed the happy young girl into a sad and unhappy woman.
五年来，父亲生病所造成的压力，把她从一个快乐的小姑娘变成了一个悲伤、忧郁的妇人。
Responsibility goes with becoming a father.
当了父亲责任就随之而来。
Responsibility goes with becoming a father.
做了父亲就有了责任。
He harbors a secret hatred against his father.
他对他的父亲暗怀憎恨。
His father saw him as a man who could not make a living for himself.
他父亲把他看作是个连自己也养不活的人。
The father expressed approval of what the son did.
父亲对儿子的所作所为表示赞许。
This earned for him the title of “father of the modern Olympics”.
这为他赢得了“现代奥林匹克之父”的称号。
My father will blow his top when he sees what happened to the car.
我父亲看到车子这个样子肯定会大发雷霆。
He resented his father for being so strict with him.
他怨恨父亲对自己如此严格。
After he left college, his father set him up in the furniture trade.
大学毕业后，他的父亲出资帮他经营家具业。
The money your father left you will be held in trust until you are 21.
你父亲留下的钱会有人为你保管着，直到你年满21岁。
The money he got from his father was the basis for a new business.
从他父亲那里得到的钱是他做新买卖的本金。
The money he got from his father was the basis for a new business.
从他父亲那里得到的钱是他做新生意的基础。
Jack’s father is rather angry with him for his indifference to the future.
杰克的父亲因为杰克对未来漠不关心而对他很生气。
For a moment I thought father was going to beat me, and I recoiled in horror.
有一刻我以为父亲要打我，所以我满怀恐惧地往后退缩。
Plus, he was a father of three little children.
此外他还是三个幼小孩子的父亲。
He bears a striking resemblance to his father.
他长得非常像他父亲。
His father didn't approve of his leaving school at 16.
他父亲不赞成他16岁就离开学校。
I agree with your father; it's a foolish risk.
我同意你父亲的看法: 那是愚蠢的冒险。
My father is over 60 years old.
我父亲已年过六十了。
He will probably follow in his father's footsteps.
他可能会继承父业。
What does your father do?
你父亲做什么工作？
His father runs a restaurant． 他的父亲经营一家餐馆。
My father is at home looking for the ticket.我爸爸正在家里找票呢!
My father and mother went for a walk.
爸爸妈妈去散步了。
His father beat the disobedient boy.
他的父亲打那个不听话的男孩。
The sad news of her father's death was the only cloud on an otherwise happy year.
她父亲的死讯是她愉快的一年中唯一伤心的事。
His father asked him to avoid bad company.
他父亲要他不要交坏朋友。
I have loved her like a father should.
我爱她就像爱自己的女儿一样。
The little boy followed his father out.
小男孩跟随他父亲出去了。
He managed the company when his father was away ill.
在他的父亲生病不在的时候，他管理公司。
My father and I only meet at meals.
我父亲和我只在进餐时间相聚。
His father is a customs officer.
他父亲是一位海关官员。
My father retired at the age of 60.
我父亲六十岁时退休了。
Father sits in the same chair every evening.
父亲每晚都坐在同一张椅子上，
She tore the child from its father's arms.
她把孩子从父亲怀里抢了过去。
我父亲上年纪了。
My father's getting on in years. *be getting on in years 为惯用语，“上年纪”。
My father's becoming an old man.
My father's getting older.
他是个倔老头。
He's a stubborn old man. *stubborn“顽固的”、“倔强的”。
Didn't your father say okay? (你爸爸同意了吗?)
No, he's a stubborn old man. (没有，他是个倔老头。)
He's a hardheaded old man.
想起来了吗?
Remember?
Do you know that man? (你认识那个男人?)
He's my father. Remember? (他是我父亲，想起来了吗?)
Do you remember?
Don't you remember? (你不记得了?)
我把一切告诉你。
I'll fill you in. *fill...in“填满……”、“把……装满”。
So, what happened to my father? (那，我父亲出了什么事情?)
I'll fill you in. (我把一切告诉你。)
I'll tell you all about it.
I'll explain everything.
I'll tell you all the details.
to marry （someone）与 to be married to（someone）： marry 当做及物动词时，多用主动语态（active voice）。
* She married a man ten years younger（或older）. （她嫁给一位比她小或大十岁的男人）
= She married a man ten years her junior（或senior）.
但是 marry 用在被动语态时（passive voice），後面要用介系词 to。
* She is（was）married to a man ten years younger（older）.
= She is （was）married to a man ten years her junior（senior).（假如用 is，指目前还是夫妻，如用 was，可能已经不是夫妻了）
然而，在 married 後面用介系词 by 时，又有「牧师证婚」的意思。
* She was married by a man ten years younger. (是指为她证婚的牧师，比她小十岁。)
* She was married by my father.（为他证婚的牧师是我老爸。）(因为牧师证婚已成过去，所以要用过去式 was。）
代问他人好当然能用”Please remember me to your sister .” 或”Please give my best wishes to your father ”不过，若是很好的朋友，何不说，“Please give my love to Jim。”
A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both.
父亲是财富，兄弟是安慰，朋友兼而有之。
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
爱钱如命的父亲生个儿子挥金如土。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是知识之父，记忆是知识之母。
From the father comes honour; from the mother, comfort.
荣誉由父次，安慰由母与。
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
父贤知其子。
Labour is often the father of pleasure.
勤劳常为快乐之源。
Like father, like son.
有其父必有其子。
Many a good father hath but a bad son.
好父亲偏生不肖子。
One father can support ten children, ten children cannot support one father.
一个父亲能扶养十个孩子，十个孩子却不能赡养一个父亲。
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
一个父亲胜于一百个教师。
The child is father of (or to) the man.
三岁定终身。
The wish is father to the thought.
有愿望就有信念。
A I made an appointment for my daughter at the hairdresser’s.
A 我替我的女儿在美发厅定了一个约会。
B Does she look like you?
B 她长得像你吗？
A No, my daughter has got red hair.
A 不，我女儿的头发是红色的。
B That's a surprise!
B 让人吃惊！
A And she's got brown eyes. ?Like her father.
A 她的眼睛是褐色的。像她的父亲。
B Have you got a photo of her? I’d like to see what she looks like.
B 你有她的照片吗？我想看看她长什么样子。
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington, Father of the United States
自由一旦生根，便是株迅猛生长的植物。
美国国父华盛顿.G.
Labor is often the father of pleasure.
French Philosopher and historian
劳动常常是快乐之父。
法国哲学家、历史学家伏尔泰
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington, Father of the United States
努力保持那胸中圣火即称作良心的火花久燃不息。
美国国父华盛顿.G.
God was constructed out of mankind's need for hope , for purpose, for meaning:an invisible protector and conscientious father.
Howards Mel. USA writer
人类出于对希望、目标意义的需要而造出了神：一位冥冥之中的保护者和尽责的养育者。
美国作家梅尔.H.
It was the policy of the good old gentlemen to make his chileren feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home---feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
Irvng Washington, Father of literature of the United States.
让孩子感到家庭是世界上最幸福的地方，这是以往有涵养的大人明智的做法。这种美妙的家庭情感，在我看来，和大人赠给孩子们的那些最精致的礼物一样珍贵。
美国文学之父华盛顿. I.
My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep , and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
Ivy Baker Priest, American officer of government
我父亲总是说，一个孩子需要四样东西--充分的爱、富于营养的食物、有规律的睡眠、大量的肥皂和水--这些完了呢，他最需要的是一些明智的放任。
美国政府官员普里斯特.I.B.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bretrand Rrssell, British philosopher
父亲们最根本的缺点在于想要自己的孩子为自己争光。
英国哲学家罗素.B.
I believe that our Heaven Father invented man because he was dis-appointed in monkey
Mark Twain, American writer
我相信，我们的天父之所以创造人是因为猴子使他失望了。
美国作家马克?吐温
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
Charles Bernard, French philosopher
经验是智慧之父，记忆是知识之母。
法国哲学家贝尔纳.c.
I die hard but am not afraid to go .
George Washington, father of the United States
我痛苦地死，但我并不怕死。
美国国父华盛顿G.
a chip off the old block一个模子印出来的；酷似（父母的人）
Scott certainly is a chip off the old block. He reminds me so much of his father when he was that age.
斯克特酷似他爸爸。他让我想起他爸爸在他这年龄时的许多事。
Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子
You are your father's son. 你长得很象你父亲.
- be a far cry from...与……相差甚远（一般用来表示水平或程度等的差距）
Though Dick has tried hard, it is still a far cry from what his father expects of him.
- put one's foot down 气愤的表示反对
The boy wanted to quit school, but his father put his foot down.
- add fuel to the flames 火上浇油
The boy refused to make an apology to his father, which added fuel to the flames.
- take something to heart 往心里去/认真接受意见等
Tom decided to take his father's words to heart and wash his hands off smoking.
- fly into a rage 大发雷霆
The old father flew into a rage when his daughter didn't obey his will.
- be on the sly 办事狡猾
The boy was smoking in the corner when his father caught him on the sly.
- Take it out on someone 拿别人出气
The boy was reprimanded by his father. He took it out on his ball.
爸爸 father; dada; daddy; papa; dad
A: I must also buy a present for my father back in London.
A: 我还必须为我在伦敦的父亲买件礼物。
B: Ok, we will look for one for your father as well. How old is your father?
B: 好的，我们也为你的父亲找件礼物。你父亲多大年纪？
A: He’s 82.
A: 他82岁。
B: Eighty-two. That’s a good age.
B: 82岁。他很长寿。
A: Yes, and he’s very healthy and active. He would love to come to Beijing to see the sights.
A: 是的，他非常健康、活跃。他想来北京观光。
B: You should bring him next time you come.
B: 下次你来的时候应该把他带来。
Remember – if you have to do something, you can use must / must: e.g.: I must buy a present for my father / I must buy a present for my father.
记住——如果你不得不做某事，你可以用must /一定。例如：I must buy a present for my father / 我一定要为我的爸爸买一件礼物。
Also, remember how to ask about age: How old is your father? / How old is your father? Or: What age is your father? / What age is your father?
也请大家记住询问年龄的表达法：How old is your father? / 你爸爸多大年纪? 或者: What age is your father? / 你爸爸的年纪是多少？
爸 [bà] /father/dad/pa/papa/
爸爸 [bà ba ] /(informal) father/
表兄弟 [biǎo xiōng dì] /father's sister's sons/maternal male cousin/
表姊妹 [biǎo zǐ mèi] /father's sister's daughters/maternal female cousin/
伯 [bó] /father's elder brother/senior/paternal elder uncle/eldest of brothers/respectful form of address/
伯伯 [bó bo ] /father's elder brother/uncle/
伯父 [bó fù] /father's elder brother/(polite form of address for a man who is about the age of one's father)/
伯母 [bó mǔ] /wife of father's elder brother/aunt/(polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)/
伯叔祖父 [bó shū zǔ fù] /father's father's brother; great uncle/
伯叔祖母 [bó shū zǔ mǔ] /father's father's brother's wife; great aunt/
椿 [chūn] /Cedrela chinensis/father/
大妈 [dà mā] /father's elder brother's wife/aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)/
大娘 [dà niáng] /(informal) father's older brother's wife; aunt/
大爷 [dà yé] /(informal) father's older brother; elder uncle/
父 [fù] /father/
父母 [fù mǔ] /father and mother/parents/
父亲 [fù qīn] /father/
父亲 [fù qin ] /father/
公公 [gōng gong ] /husband's father/father-in-law/
姑夫 [gū fu ] /father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle/
姑母 [gū mǔ] /father's sister; paternal aunt/
姑奶奶 [gū nǎi nai ] /(informal) father's father's sister; great aunt/
姑爷 [gū yé] /father's father's sister's husband; paternal grandaunt's husband/
鲧 [gǔn] /father of great yeu/
国父 [guó fù] /father or founder of a nation/
继父 [jì fù] /step father/
开国元勋 [kāi guó yuán xūn] /founding fathers (of a country)/
老奶奶 [lǎo nǎi nai ] /(informal) father's father's mother; paternal great grandmother/
老爷 [lǎo yé] /(informal) mother's father; maternal grandfather/
老爷爷 [lǎo yé ye ] /(informal) father's father's father; paternal great grandfather/
奶奶 [nǎi nai ] /(informal) father's mother; paternal grandmother/
婶 [shěn] /wife of father's younger brother/
婶母 [shěn mǔ] /father's younger brother's wife; aunt/
婶子 [shěn zi ] /(informal) father's younger brother's wife; aunt/
叔父 [shū fù] /father's younger brother; uncle/
叔叔 [shū shu ] /(informal) father's younger brother; uncle/
堂兄弟 [táng xiōng dì] /father's brother's sons; paternal male cousin/
堂姊妹 [táng zǐ mèi] /father's brother's daughters; paternal female cousin/
天父 [tiān fù] /Heavenly Father/
外公 [wài gōng] /(informal) mother's father; maternal grandfather/
外祖父 [wài zǔ fù] /mother's father; maternal grandfather/
养父 [yǎng fù] /foster, adopted father/
爷爷 [yé ye ] /(informal) father's father; paternal grandfather/
岳 [yuè] /(surname)/mountain/wife's father/
岳父 [yuè fù] /wife's father, father-in-law/
曾 [zēng] /(surname)/great-grand (father)/
曾祖父 [zēng zǔ fù] /father's father's father; paternal great grandfather/
曾祖母 [zēng zǔ mǔ] /father's father's mother; paternal great grandmother/
祖父 [zǔ fù] /father's father/paternal grandfather/
祖姑母 [zǔ gū mǔ] /father's father's sister; great aunt/
祖母 [zǔ mǔ] /father's mother; paternal grandmother/
We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hip replacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's vaccinations, and even a pet's shots.
我们需要说明动物实验与祖母的髋骨更换、父亲的心脏搭桥、婴儿的免疫接种、甚至宠物的注射针剂都密切相关。
{adj: Carolingian} of or relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father
{adj: Eurasian, Eurasiatic} relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia
"His mother was Eurasian, and his father Chinese"
"the Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world"
{adj: agnate, agnatic, paternal} related on the father's side
"a paternal aunt"
{adj: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed} troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
"harassed working mothers"
"a harried expression"
"her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"
"the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
{adj: befitting} appropriate to
"behavior befitting a father"
{adj: careful, heedful} cautiously attentive
"careful of her feelings"
"heedful of his father's advice"
{adj: devoted} zealous in devotion or affection
"a devoted husband and father"
"devoted friends"
{adj: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting} avoiding waste
"an economical meal"
"an economical shopper"
"a frugal farmer"
"a frugal lunch"
"a sparing father and a spending son"
"sparing in their use of heat and light"
"stinting in bestowing gifts"
"thrifty because they remember the great Depression"
"`scotch' is used only informally"
{adj: elder, older, sr.} used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son
"Bill Adams, Sr."
{adj: embarrassed, humiliated, mortified} made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
"too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"
"humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"
"felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"
{adj: fatherless} having no living father
{adj: fatherless} not having a known or legally responsible father
{adj: fatherly, fatherlike} like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
{adj: fatherly} showing the affection of a father
{adj: foster, surrogate} providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties
"foster parent"
"foster child"
"foster home"
"surrogate father"
{adj: guilt-ridden} feeling or revealing a sense of guilt
"so guilt-ridden he could not face his father"
{adj: hard-to-please, hard to please} (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"
"was very hard to please"
{adj: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish} resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
"piggish table manners"
"the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"
"swinish slavering over food"
{adj: jaded, wearied} exhausted
"my father's words had left me jaded and depressed"- William Styron
{adj: kidnapped, kidnaped, abducted} (of persons) seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom
"the father restored the kidnapped (or abducted) child to the mother"
{adj: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting} very generous
"distributed gifts with a lavish hand"
"the critics were lavish in their praise"
"a munificent gift"
"his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"
"prodigal praise"
"unsparing generosity"
"his unstinted devotion"
"called for unstinting aid to Britain"
{adj: noninterchangeable} such that the terms of an expression cannot be interchanged without changing the meaning
"the arguments of the symmetric relation, `is the father of', are noninterchangeable"
{adj: paternal} belonging to or inherited from one's father
"spent his childhood on the paternal farm"
"paternal traits"
{adj: paternal} characteristic of a father
<-> maternal
{adj: patricentric} centered upon the father
{adj: patristic, patristical} of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers
{adj: provident} providing carefully for the future
"wild squirrels are provident"
"a provident father plans for his children's education"
<-> improvident
{adj: putative, purported, reputed, supposed} commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds
"the foundling's putative father"
"the reputed (or purported) author of the book"
"the supposed date of birth"
{adj: rich} possessing material wealth
"her father is extremely rich"
"many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"
<-> poor
{adj: scolding} who is rebuking severely
"the scolding father"
{adj: triangular, trilateral, tripartite, three-party, three-way} involving three parties or elements
"the triangular mother-father-child relationship"
"a trilateral agreement"
"a tripartite treaty"
"a tripartite division"
"a three-way playoff"
{adj: unbefitting} not befitting
"behavior unbefitting a father"
{adj: well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant} marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results
"a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"
"a well-meaning but tactless fellow"
"the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers"- S.W.Maughm
"blunt but well-meant criticism"
{adj: young-begetting} capable of fathering offspring
{adj: younger, jr.} used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father
"John Junior"
"John Smith, Jr."
{adv: along} in accompaniment or as a companion
"his little sister came along to the movies"
"I brought my camera along"
"working along with his father"
{adv: apart, asunder} into parts or pieces
"he took his father's watch apart"
"split apart"
"torn asunder"
{adv: badly} with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display
"they took their defeat badly"
"took her father's death badly"
"conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"
<-> well
{adv: better, best} from a position of superiority or authority
"father knows best"
"I know better."
{adv: collectedly, composedly} in a self-collected or self-possessed manner
"he announced the death of his father collectedly"
{adv: down} from an earlier time
"the story was passed down from father to son"
{adv: everlastingly, eternally, forever, evermore} for a limitless time
"no one can live forever"
"brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
{adv: every so often, every now and then} occasionally
"every so often she visits her father"
{adv: in fact, in point of fact, as a matter of fact} in reality or actuality
"in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived"
"painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated"
"as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father"
{adv: inequitably} in an inequitable manner
"their father's possessions were inequitably divided among the sons"
<-> equitably
{adv: insecurely} in a tentative and self-conscious manner
"she always acts very insecurely in the presence of her father"
<-> securely
{adv: more than, to a higher degree} comparing quantity or quality
"by the time she was 4 she was more than half her father's height"
<-> less than
{adv: nothing} in no way; to no degree
"he looks nothing like his father"
{adv: questionably, dubiously} in a questionable and dubious manner
"these were estates his father questionably acquired"
{adv: trustfully, trustingly, confidingly} with trust; in a trusting manner
"she looked at her father trustingly"
<-> distrustfully
{adv: vainly, in vain} to no avail
"he looked for her in vain"
"the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"
{adv: well} to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
"the project was well underway"
"the fetus has well developed organs"
"his father was well pleased with his grades"
{n: Abraham, Ibrahim} the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son
"Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham"
{n: Aeschylus} Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)
{n: Alexander VI, Pope Alexander VI, Borgia, Rodrigo Borgia} Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (1431-1503)
{n: Ambrose, Saint Ambrose, St. Ambrose} (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)
{n: Anshar} the Babylonian father of the gods; identified with Assyrian Ashur; in Sumerian the name signifies `the totality of the upper world'
{n: Antigone} (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death
{n: Apostle, Apostelic Father} any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people
{n: Apsu} father of the gods and consort of Tiamat
{n: Arianism} heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son
<-> Athanasianism
{n: Athanasianism} the theological doctrine taught by Athanasius that Christ the Son is of the same substance as God the Father
<-> Arianism
{n: Athanasius, Saint Athanasius, St. Athanasius, Athanasius the Great} (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373)
{n: Atreus} (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus
{n: Augustine, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Augustine of Hippo} (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430)
{n: Barrymore, Maurice Barrymore, Herbert Blythe} United States actor; husband of Georgiana Emma Barrymore and father of Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore (1847-1905)
{n: Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell} a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
{n: Bradley method of childbirth, Bradley method} a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth by providing education and exercises and nutrition and techniques of breathing and relaxation (with the assistance of the father)
{n: Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine} American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824)
{n: Carolingian dynasty, Carlovingian dynasty} a Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father that ruled from 751 to 987
{n: Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton} conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)
{n: Church Father, Father of the Church, Father} (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
{n: Cuvier, Georges Cuvier, Baron Georges Cuvier, Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier} French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)
{n: Dagda} chief Celtic god of the Tuatha De Danann; father of Angus Og and Brigit
{n: De Forest, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio} United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
{n: Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes} son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC)
{n: Drew, John Drew} United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)
{n: Ea} the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element
{n: Edward, Edward V} King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)
{n: Electra complex} a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
{n: Elizabeth, Elizabeth II} daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)
"Elizabeth II is the head of state in Great Britain"
{n: Erebus} (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld; son of Chaos; brother of Nox; father of Aether and Day
{n: Eustachio, Bartolommeo Eustachio} Italian anatomist who was one of the fathers of modern anatomy; noted for descriptions of the ear and the heart (1520-1574)
{n: Father Brown} a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton
{n: Father's Day} US: third Sunday in June
{n: Father, Father-God, Fatherhood} God when considered as the first person in the Trinity
"hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
{n: Father, Padre} `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military
{n: Fenrir} (Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin
{n: Founding Father} a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
{n: Geb, Keb} Egyptian god of the earth; father of Osiris and Isis
{n: Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide} French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951)
{n: Gregory, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nazianzen} (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391)
{n: Hamlet} the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
{n: Harrod, Charles Digby Harrod} English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)
{n: Henry II} king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559)
{n: Henry VI} son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461; he was taken prisoner in 1460 and Edward IV was proclaimed king; he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of London (1421-1471)
{n: Herodotus} the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)
{n: Hippocrates} medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
{n: Hyperion} (Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology
{n: Iapetus} (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology
{n: Icarus} (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
{n: Isaac} (Old Testament) the second patriarch; son of Abraham and Sarah who was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice to God; father of Jacob and Esau
{n: Izanagi} the god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami
{n: Jacob} (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God')
{n: Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus} (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420)
{n: John Chrysostom, St. John Chrysostom} (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407)
{n: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster} the fourth son of Edward III who was the effective ruler of England during the close of his father's reign and during the minority of Richard II; his son was Henry Bolingbroke (1340-1399)
{n: Joseph} (New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus
{n: Junior, Jr, Jnr} a son who has the same first name as his father
{n: Laertes} (Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus
{n: Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier} French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)
{n: Leiden, Leyden} a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620
{n: Lir, Ler} the sea personified; father of Manannan; corresponds to Welsh Llyr
{n: Llyr} Celtic deity who was the father of Manawydan; corresponds to Irish Lir
{n: Mars} (Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares
{n: Mayflower} the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620
{n: Medea} (Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father
{n: Mill, James Mill} Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
{n: Njord, Njorth} (Norse mythology) chief of the Vanir; god of the sea and winds and prosperity; father of Frey and Freya; sometimes subsumes Teutonic Nerthus
{n: Oedipus complex, Oedipal complex} a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved
{n: Oedipus, King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex} (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
{n: Osiris} Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and sister of Isis; father of Horus
{n: Ouranos, Uranus} (Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology
{n: Paternoster} (Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'
{n: Peleus} a king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles
{n: Pepin, Pepin III, Pepin the Short} king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 (714-768)
{n: Phaethon} (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth
{n: Philip II, Philip II of Macedon} king of ancient Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BC)
{n: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father} one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620
{n: Pontus, Pontos} (Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea; father of Nereus
{n: Powhatan, Wahunsonacock} Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
{n: Priam} (Greek mythology) the last king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris and Cassandra
{n: Ptah} a major Egyptian god; shaper of the world; father of gods and men; worshipped especially at Memphis
{n: Rudra} father of the storm gods Marut; controller of nature; sometimes identified with Siva
{n: Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen} Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950)
{n: Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat} Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949)
{n: Santa Claus, Santa, Kriss Kringle, Father Christmas, Saint Nick, St. Nick} the legendary patron saint of children
{n: Scholasticism} the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
{n: Silenus} the chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey
{n: Tiresias} (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother
{n: Tom Thumb} an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb
{n: Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity} the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead
{n: Typhon} (Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads and one of the whirlwinds; son of Typhoeus and father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx
{n: Verne, Jules Verne} French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905)
{n: Vesalius, Andreas Vesalius} a Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy (1514-1564)
{n: Virgin Birth, Nativity} the theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at Christmas
{n: Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber} German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
{n: Winckelmann, Johann Winckelmann, Johann Joachim Winckelmann} German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768)
{n: Zeus} (Greek mythology) the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology; son of Rhea and Cronus whom he dethroned; husband and brother of Hera; brother of Poseidon and Hades; father of many gods; counterpart of Roman Jupiter
{n: achiever, winner, success, succeeder} a person with a record of successes
"his son would never be the achiever that his father was"
"only winners need apply"
"if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success"
<-> loser
{n: agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrisib, patrilineal sib} one related on the father's side
{n: analysis} the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'
{n: association} the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
"his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break"
<-> disassociation
{n: aunt, auntie, aunty} the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
<-> uncle
{n: bareness, starkness} an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
"I was struck by the starkness of my father's room"
{n: birch, birch rod} a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment
"my father never spared the birch"
{n: city father} an important municipal official
{n: commercialization, commercialisation} the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce
"my father considered the commercialization of Christmas to be a sacrilege"
"the government tried to accelerate the commercialization of this development"
"both companies will retain control over the commercialization of their own products"
{n: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop} an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
{n: deadbeat dad} a father who defaults on his obligation to provide financial support for his offspring
{n: delinquency, dereliction, willful neglect} a tendency to be negligent and uncaring
"he inherited his delinquency from his father"
"his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"
"his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"
{n: don, father} the head of an organized crime family
{n: drawing, draftsmanship, drafting} the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
"he learned drawing from his father"
{n: emanation, rise, procession} (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
"the emanation of the Holy Spirit"
"the rising of the Holy Ghost"
"the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son"
{n: erythroblastosis fetalis} severe anemia in newborn babies; the result of Rh incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood; typically occurs when the child of an Rh-negative mother inherits Rh-positive blood from the father; can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis
{n: father figure, father surrogate} a man who takes over all the functions of the real father
{n: father, male parent, begetter} a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
"his father was born in Atlanta"
<-> female parent, mother
{n: father-figure} a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
{n: father-in-law} the father of your spouse
{n: fatherhood, paternity} the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
{n: fatherhood} the status of a father
{n: fatherliness, paternal quality} the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father
"the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
{n: father} a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
"the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"
"the city fathers endorsed the proposal"
{n: forefather, father, sire} the founder of a family
"keep the faith of our forefathers"
{n: foster-father, foster father} a man who is a foster parent
{n: founder, beginner, founding father, father} a person who founds or establishes some institution
"George Washington is the father of his country"
{n: genitor} a natural father or mother
{n: grandfather, gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa} the father of your father or mother
{n: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran} the mother of your father or mother
{n: grandparent} a parent of your father or mother
{n: great grandfather} a father of your grandparent
{n: great-aunt, grandaunt} an aunt of your father or mother
{n: great-uncle, granduncle} an uncle of your father or mother
{n: house} play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
"the children were playing house"
{n: labor coach, monitrice} assistant (often the father) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes
{n: lecture, speech, talking to} a lengthy rebuke
"a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
"the teacher gave him a talking to"
{n: memory, remembering} the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
"he can do it from memory"
"he enjoyed remembering his father"
{n: obedience, respect} behavior intended to please your parents
"their children were never very strong on obedience"
"he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes"
{n: old man} an informal term for your father
{n: parent} a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
<-> child
{n: parricide} the murder of your own father or mother
{n: paternity suit, bastardy proceeding} a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)
{n: paternity test} a test based on blood groups to determine whether a particular man could be the biological father of a particular child; negative results prove he was not the father but positive results show only that he could be
{n: paternity} the state of being a father
"tests were conducted to determine paternity"
{n: pater} an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously
{n: patriarch} any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
{n: patricide} a person who murders their father
{n: patricide} the murder of your father
{n: patristics, patrology} the study of the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Church Fathers
{n: patristics, patrology} the writings of the early Church Fathers
{n: patronymic, patronym} a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor)
{n: philosophy} any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
"self-indulgence was his only philosophy"
"my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
{n: pope, Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father, Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome} the head of the Roman Catholic Church
{n: posthumous birth} birth of a child after the father has died
{n: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image} a standard or typical example
"he is the prototype of good breeding"
"he provided America with an image of the good father"
{n: report card, report} a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment
"his father signed his report card"
{n: shadow} a dominating and pervasive presence
"he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father"
{n: shadow} refuge from danger or observation
"he felt secure in his father's shadow"
{n: side} a family line of descent
"he gets his brains from his father's side"
{n: slapper, spanker} a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand
"someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see who the slapper was"
"my father was the designated spanker in our family"
{n: stepmother} the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage
{n: sufficiency} sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations
"her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"
{n: surrogate mother} a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so
"a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term"
{n: title, claim} an established or recognized right
"a strong legal claim to the property"
"he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"
"he staked his claim"
{n: toehold} a relatively insignificant position from which future progress might be made
"American diplomacy provided a toehold on which to proceed toward peace talks"
"his father gave him a toehold in the oil business"
{n: transgression, evildoing} the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
"the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"
{n: tritheism} (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods
{n: tritheist} someone (not an orthodox Christian) who believes that the Father and Son and Holy Ghost are three separate gods
{n: trust} something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
"he is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father"
{n: tyrant} any person who exercises power in a cruel way
"his father was a tyrant"
{n: uncle} the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
<-> aunt
{n: version, variant, variation, edition} something a little different from others of the same type
"an experimental version of the night fighter"
"a variant of the same word"
"an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"
"the boy is a younger edition of his father"
{n: volition, willing} the act of making a choice
"followed my father of my own volition"
{v: act on} regulate one's behavior in accordance with certain information, ideas, or advice
"The Founding Fathers acted on certain moral principles"
{v: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth} make children
"Abraham begot Isaac"
"Men often father children but don't recognize them"
{v: benefact} help as a benefactor
"The father benefacted his daughter in more ways than she was aware of"
{v: buy back, repurchase} buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
"He bought back the house that his father sold years ago"
{v: carve, cut up} cut to pieces
"Father carved the ham"
{v: change} remove or replace the coverings of
"Father had to learn how to change the baby"
"After each guest we changed the bed linens"
{v: cling, hang} hold on tightly or tenaciously
"hang on to your father's hands"
"The child clung to his mother's apron"
{v: close up, clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mum} refuse to talk or stop talking ; fall silent
"The children shut up when their father approached"
<-> open up
{v: cover, compensate, overcompensate} make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
{v: decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate} bring to an end ; settle conclusively
"The case was decided"
"The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"
"The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
{v: explode a bombshell} utter or do something surprising
"Father exploded a bombshell when he forbade us to go to the prom"
{v: give away} formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage ; of a bride by her father
{v: inspect} look over carefully
"Please inspect your father's will carefully"
{v: judge, adjudicate, try} put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
"The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"
"The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"
{v: listen, hear, take heed} listen and pay attention
"Listen to your father"
"We must hear the expert before we make a decision"
{v: make} be or be capable of being changed or made into
"He makes a great host"
"He will make a fine father"
{v: make} develop into
"He will make a splendid father!"
{v: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder} disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
"She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
{v: portray, present} represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally
"The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting"
{v: produce, bring forth} bring out for display
"The proud father produced many pictures of his baby"
"The accused brought forth a letter in court that he claims exonerates him"
{v: reverence, fear, revere, venerate} regard with feelings of respect and reverence ; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
"Fear God as your father"
"We venerate genius"
{v: ride} be sustained or supported or borne
"His glasses rode high on his nose"
"The child rode on his mother's hips"
"She rode a wave of popularity"
"The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name"
{v: spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue} expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
"The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
{v: step} move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
"She stepped into a life of luxury"
"he won't step into his father's footsteps"
{v: take after} be similar to a relative
"She takes after her father!"
{v: tell, narrate, recount, recite} narrate or give a detailed account of
"Tell what happened"
"The father told a story to his child"
{v: testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show} provide evidence for
"The blood test showed that he was the father"
"Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
{v: withhold, keep back} hold back ; refuse to hand over or share
"The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room"
" You would like my mother, I think, " I said, " but my father's been dead since I was 11. "
"我想你会喜欢我母亲的， "我说道， "可我父亲在我 11岁时就去世了。
The strange thing was that I never used to go out with my father, rather it was my grandfather who would take me with him wherever he went, except for the mornings I would go to the mosque to learn the Koran.
奇怪的是那时我很少与父亲一道出门，倒是祖父不管到哪儿总会带上我，但早上除外，因为我得去清真寺学诵《古兰经》。
Gene is a fantastic father who adopted my daughter from a previous marriage.
吉恩还是位难得一遇的好父亲，他接纳了我与前夫的女儿。
" My father actually builds planes, so I 've been around them all my life. "
"我父亲实际上是造飞机的，所以这辈子我一直与飞机打交道。 "
" What time will Father be home? " I asked.
"爸爸什么时候回来？ "我问道。
As 7 o'clock drew near, I confidently placed it right on my father's plate on the dining-room table.
快到七点钟了，我信心十足地把那首诗放在餐桌上父亲使用的盘子上。
I admired my father.
我崇拜父亲。
This evening it was almost 8 o'clock when my father burst in. He was an hour late for dinner.
那天晚上，父亲赶回家的时候已快八点钟了，比平时晚了一小时吃晚饭。
" Imagine, we would have finished the picture tonight, " my father was shouting. " Instead that moron suddenly gets it into her beautiful empty, little head that she can't play the last scene.
"想想看，我们今晚本可以拍完那部电影， "父亲吼道， "可是那个空长了个漂亮小脑袋的蠢婆娘突然冒出了个怪念头，说她演不了最后一个镜头。
" If you don't mind, I'd like to decide for myself, " Father said.
"如果你不介意的话，我想自己下结论， "父亲说。
'I don't know why, " my father held his ground.
"我真搞不懂， "父亲仍然不让步。
A few years later I took a second look at the first poem, and reluctantly I had to agree with my father's harsh judgment.
几年以后，我重读了那第一首诗，虽极不情愿，但又不得不同意父亲当时苛刻的评语。
I had a mother who said, 'Buddy, did you really write this? I think it's wonderful ! ' and a father who shook his head no and drove me to tears with, " I think it's lousy. "
我有一个对我说 "巴迪，这真是你写的吗？我看棒极了！ "的母亲，也有一个用一句 "我看糟透了 "和摇头加以否定，弄得我直哭鼻子的父亲。
When he was a boy at Drayton Manor, his father was accustomed to set him up at table to practise speaking extempore and he early accustomed him to repeat as much of the Sunday's sermon as he could remember.
他小时候在德雷顿在园时，他父亲总是让他坐在桌旁练习即席讲话；并且很早使他习惯于尽量重复他所记忆的礼拜天的布道文。
When afterwards replying in succession to the arguments of his parliamentary opponents--an art in which he was perhaps unrivalled--it was little surmised that the extraordinary power of accurate remembrance which he displayed on such occasions had been originally trained under the discipline of his father in the parish church of Drayton.
后来在议会上应对对手一个接一个的争论时－他在这门技艺上也许是无人可比的－很少有人猜想得到他在这样的场合显露出的不寻常的准确记忆力，原来是在德雷顿牧区教堂里他父亲的训练之下培养成功的。
When the ballet dancer Taglioni was preparing herself for her evening exhibition, she would, after a severe two hours ' lesson from her father, fall down exhausted, and had to be undressed, sponged, and resuscitated from being totally unconscious.
芭蕾舞演员泰格利欧尼准备晚会演出时，在跟着父亲上了两小时非常严格的芭蕾课程之后，她会精疲力尽跌倒在地，不得不让别人帮她脱下衣服，用湿海绵擦身，使她从完全失去知觉中苏醒过来。
When John's father died, Clint came to visit John.
约翰的父亲去世时，克林特前来看望约翰。
When Bart, their son, ended high school, he said to his father,
当他们的儿子巴特读完中学后，他对父亲说：
" Now I know how much he loves me.
"现在我知道，他爱我有多深。
He has made me proud of him all these years.
这些年来，他使我为他而感到骄傲。
It must have been difficult for your father not to tell me, Johanna. "
约翰娜，你父亲一直没有把真相告诉我，那一定是很为难的。 "
Grief-stricken, his father and I sold our home, where memories clung to every room.
我和他父亲悲痛欲绝，变卖了那每间屋子都充满着记忆的家。
His father and I grew old enough to retire,
他父亲和我已到退休年龄，
and in December 1986 we decided to return to Denver. 1986年 12月我们决定回到丹佛。
How her father would have relished that moment.
此刻她的父亲如果还活着该会何等高兴啊！
Once more that day her voice, so like her father's, lifted in song, and the mountainside echoed the chorus of " Joy to the World ", on and on into infinity.
那天，她提着嗓门再次高歌，她的嗓音如此像她父亲的，山腹回荡着《到极乐世界去》的歌声，那歌声飘呀飘，飘向无垠的天宇。
Now, as an adult and a father, I finally understand what together really means.
如今，我已长大成人，当了父亲，我终于懂得了让一家人联系在一起的真正含义。
My father couldn't summon the emotional powers necessary to comfort her.
而我的父亲也无法找到必要的感情力量来安慰她。
I was too self-centered and frightened myself to hear her cries, or my father's.
我则过于以自我为中心，而且被她的病吓倒了，不敢去听她的哭声，也不敢去听父亲的哭声。
Anyone can buy a man a gold watch; but it takes a generous wife to do what one lately did, and track down an antique gold strap which precisely fits the old one he inherited from his beloved father.
任何女人都可以给丈夫买块金表，但慷慨的妻子在不久前做那件事的同时，还要为他从敬爱的老爸那儿继承过来的旧表物色一条与之匹配完美的旧式金表带。
He ran away from it because he fancied that he had been illtreated, and soon found it easy to make more money by thieving than his father had done by a lifetime of honest work.
他自认为受到了虐待，便不辞而别。很快他就发现偷窃的行当比他父亲毕生诚实劳动容易挣到更多的钱。
Traditionally, a young man asks the father of his sweetheart for permission to marry her.
在传统上，年轻男子先要请求女朋友的父亲允许自己娶她。
If the father agrees, the man later proposes to her.
如果女方的父亲答应，然后男方才能向女方求婚。
Each of them realises their voices can last only so long( although Pavarotti points out that his 86-year-old father still sings regularly in church in his Italian village), and while they can they will continue to appear on special occasions as the Three Tenors.
他们每个人都意识到了他们的声音只能持续这么长时间（虽然帕瓦罗蒂指出他 86岁的父亲还经常在意大利小村子的教堂里演唱），在还可以演唱的时候，他们会继续在特别的场合上以三大男高音的组合出现。
No prudish worries inhibited the fathers of the French nation.
法国的开国之父们没有过分正经的烦恼。
" My father tried keeping me in line, but I was a rebellious little kid.
"我父亲想要我循规蹈矩，可是我是个桀骜不驯的小孩子。
First, because this world isn't a good place to bring kids up in;
首先，因为这个世界不是养育小孩儿的好地方；
second, because I didn't think I could be a good father--being a gang member, going to jail. "
其次，因为我认为我不可能当个好爸爸－作为团伙的一份子，随时会进监狱。 "
He gave up the gang, got a job, tried to be a good husband and father.
他与 "混合帮 "一刀两断，找到了一份工作，努力当个好丈夫、好父亲。
He'd spent his life brewing beer for local breweries, barely making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him.
因为，他一辈子就像他父亲及祖父一样，仅仅是为了谋生，专为当地的啤酒厂酿造啤酒。
My father, the town's only doctor, had to be where sick people could find him.
我爸爸是镇上唯一的一名大夫，他得守在病人能找到他的地方。
Father came and went in a small fishing boat.
爸爸坐在一条小渔船上来来去去。
My father lit our camp light, and we went to the landing to look.
爸爸点亮露营用的灯，我们借着灯光到楼梯平台上察看。
On the day water covered the gutters outside, my father decided we would have to seek shelter in the tents on the hill.
河水淹上房外檐槽的那一天，爸爸决定，我们必须到山上的帐篷里寻求庇护了。
My father called down to me again.
爸爸又在朝下喊我。
Father had gone off to care for sick people, and Mother sat on my cot with her arm around my shoulder.
爸爸照看病人去了；妈妈坐在我的帆布床上，搂着我的肩头。
So one crisp, sunny January morning, joined by Julian's father, Epstein bundled the boy into a wheelchair and rolled him down the middle of Manhattan's busy First Avenue, which runs in front of the New York University Medical Center. 1月的一个阳光明媚的早晨，爱泼斯坦和朱利安的父亲一起把他包好放进轮椅，向着曼哈顿繁华的第一大街中心地带推去。这条大街恰好经过纽约大学医疗中心的前面。
Like their fathers and mothers, they laughed, or did not believe it, or did not know what to believe.
像他们的父母那样，他们笑着，或者不相信，或者不知道该信什么。
For five years I'd hardly spoken to my father.
五年来，我几乎没同父亲讲过一句话。
Loving but stem in the manner typical of Chinese fathers, he had made particular demands on me,
他慈爱而又严厉，具有典型的中国父亲作派，对我的要求特别苛刻。
and though we were very much alike, we'd grown very far apart.
尽管我们父女俩相似之处颇多，但我们已经变得越来越疏远。
When I became a teenager, my father held up my mother as a model of feminine behavior.
当我十几岁的时候，父亲就把母亲树立成女性行为的一个典范。
As bullheaded as my father, I escaped to the University of California, where I fell in love with a haole, as we called Caucasians from the mainland.
我的性子跟父亲一样固执，我逃到加州大学，在那儿爱上了一个在美国本上出生的我们称之为白种人的外族人。
On the long flight to Hawaii, memories of my childhood, when I was my father's small shadow, came flooding back.
在前往夏威夷的漫长飞行途中，我对童年的记忆如洪水般涌来。记忆中的我简直就是父亲身后小小的影子。
My father's expression was passive and hard to read.
父亲的表情则很冷漠，让人琢磨不透。
My father stepped back in alarm.
父亲惊恐地倒退一步。
My father was giving Timmy a bottle, tickling his tummy and crooning softly, " You are my sunshine... "
父亲正用奶瓶喂蒂米，一边搔烧蒂米的肚皮，一边轻快地哼唱： "你是我的阳光…… "
It was then I began to suspect that my father had wanted to mend the breach as much as I had.
就是从那一刻起，我开始猜想，父亲肯定曾经想过要修复我们的裂痕，就跟我曾经想过的一样。
My father and I didn't discuss our rift directly.
我和父亲没有直接讨论我们的隔阂。
Having claimed his hapa haole grandson, my father no longer defined our family by a uniform set of features.
父亲接受了他的混血白种人外孙，不再用一套统一的特征来界定自己的家族。
So pleased was my father with his new grandfather status that he took early retirement when Timmy was four, to spend more time visiting his " New York family ".
我的父亲对他作为外祖父的崭新身份感到如此快慰，以致他在蒂米四岁时便提早退休，为的是有更多的时间来光顾他的 "纽约之家 "。
My son and my father made a handsome pair as they walked together--the Chinese grandfather happily trailed by a different, bouncing shadow.
我的儿子和我的父亲一块儿行走时真是极其般配的一对儿－华人外祖父快乐地领着身后一个长相不同、活蹦乱跳的小影子。
His father was a professor of medieval studies and his mother a strict Calvinist.
他的父亲是研究中世纪历史的教授，母亲是忠实的加尔文主义者。
Taller men really do get the girls, according to a study which reveals that childless men are about 4cm shorter than fathers.
一项研究显示无子女的男人比做了父亲的男人约矮四厘米，根据这项研究，高个子男人确实吸引女孩子。
With these controls, childless men were shown on average to be 4cm shorter than those who had fathered at least one child.
这些对照实验显示没有孩子的男人比那些至少做了一个孩子的父亲的男子平均矮四厘米。
What hurt more, it seems, were the accusations about his role and the wild conspiracy theories made by his former employer, Mohamed al-Fayed, father of the deceased Dodi.
但是对他伤害更大的，看来还是他的前雇主，死者多迪之父穆罕默德·阿-法耶德对他所起作用的谴责和离奇的阴谋说法。
Until recently in the Western world, the time when a woman gave birth usually excluded the father.
在西方世界里，直至最近当女性生产时，父亲通常都是不得入内的。
Now fathers are often present at the birth of their children, but they are disrupting the naturalness of childbirth for the mothers, says an expert.
如今父亲们常常在孩子出生时待产于一旁，但是有位专家说他们会扰乱母亲们分娩的自然性。
Nine out of 10 fathers attend the birth of their child in the Western world and there are, you might have thought, few good reasons why they should not.
在西方世界，孩子出生时 10个父亲中有 9个在场，你可能会想，也没什么正当理由认为他们不应伺产于一旁。
Fathers and birth do not go together--it is not, he claims, natural.
他声称父亲和分娩不可联袂，这是不符合自然的。
In previous years, newspapers and magazines frequently ran cartoons that had the anxious father smoking nervously and pacing up and down outside the ward where the mother was giving birth.
前些年，报纸和杂志经常刊登漫画，只见一位焦急的父亲于妻子生产时神经质地吸着烟，在产房外踱来踱去。
A famous cartoon had the cigar-smoking father looking through the nursery window where newborn babies were displayed to fathers through a glass window.
曾有一幅著名的漫画，画的是一位叼着雪茄烟的父亲，通过育婴室的窗口望着新生儿，他们是隔着玻璃窗给父亲们看的。
" That must be mine, " exclaims the cigar-chomping father, as a little baby with a miniature cigar is held up by the nurse for him to view( fathers were not admitted to the wards).
当护士抱起一个别着一只迷你雪茄饰物的婴儿给那位大口大口吸着雪茄的父亲看时（父亲们是不允许进入监护室内的），他惊喜地说： "这肯定是我的孩子。 "
These old-style cartoons would not apply today--apart from being present at the birth itself, fathers are encouraged to spend time with the mother and baby, and babies are usually kept with the mother as opposed to being placed in a nursery elsewhere.
这些旧式的漫画如今不适用了－且不说分娩时让父亲们在场，还鼓励他们与母亲和婴儿呆在一起，婴儿通常也与母亲在一起，而不是放在别处的婴儿室。
A large growth in home births in the West has also seen the return to babies being born in the home bedroom, close to father and other members of the immediate family.
在西方，家庭分娩的大量增加也说明了－婴儿在家庭卧室中出生，靠近父亲和直属家庭的其他成员－这一情况的回归。
But now childbirth expert Dr Michael Odent says fathers ' presence in labour wards is so disruptive, it can even be blamed for the dramatic upsurge in caesarean section deliveries in the past few years.
但是现在，产科专家迈克尔·奥登特医生说，父亲留在产房是颇有扰乱性的，以致过去数年里剖腹产的明显增加都可以归咎于此。
Yet he remains unimpressed by the fashion for having fathers present at births.
然而，他对生产时让父亲在场的时兴做法仍然不屑一顾。
The presence of an anxious father-to-be interferes with her mental state.
焦虑的准父亲在场会干扰她的思维活动。
" In years gone by the expectant father would be endlessly boiling water and preparing towels.
过去的岁月里，准父亲会不断地煮开水和准备毛巾。
Currently 90 per cent of fathers in the Western world are present at the births of their offspring.
当前在西方社会， 90％的父亲目睹他们的子女出生。
" Dr Odent is right in that some women might feel more confident in the company of a sister, friend or their mother--than they would with the father-to-be. "
"比起由准父亲相伴，某些妇女可能觉得由姊妹、朋友或母亲相伴时更有信心－在这一点上奥登特医生是正确的。 "
" It is only in the last 20 or 30 years that giving birth has become anything but an all-female business.
奥登特医生说： "只是近 20或 30年里分娩才成为不仅仅全是女性的事情。
This over-participation of fathers just a trend. " says Dr Odent.
父亲们过分参与只是一种趋势。
Life is Beautiful is a tragicomic movie in which Benigni is a Jewish father shielding his son from the horrors of the Holocaust in a way that evokes both laughter and team.
《美丽人生》是一部悲喜剧电影。贝尼尼在片中饰演一位犹太父亲，用一种既惹人发笑又令人心酸的方式保护自己的儿子不受大屠杀惨状的伤害。
When the family is transported to Auschwitz with other Jews, Benigni as the father tells his son there will be prizes for the person who can be bravest, even as he struggles with the prison camp conditions and death all around.
当全家人和其他犹太人一起被运往奥斯维辛集中营时，贝尼尼扮演的父亲告诉儿子最勇敢的人将会得奖，甚至在他与集中营恶劣的条件和周围的死亡做斗争时也是如此。
At the heart of the movie is the strength of the love between the father and mother.
这部影片的核心是父母之间爱的力量。
I felt this idea( a father telling his son the camp they are in is a beautiful place) in my head so strongly that I really jeopardised everything, because I was flabbergasted with this idea, " he said.
他说： "我感到这个想法（一个父亲告诉儿子他们所在的集中营是个美好的地方）在我头脑中是如此强烈，以至于我真的使一切都陷于险境，因为我被这个想法惊得目瞪口呆。 "
When tragedy struck his little girl during the Depression, this father did the only thing he could.
当大萧条年代一个小女孩发生了一次悲剧性事故时，她的父亲做了他唯一能做的事。
Then one day, while sitting at my usual place in the window, I saw my father walking up the street carrying two tricycles on his shoulders... one red and the other white.
随后有一天，当我坐在窗台上的老位置时，我看见我爸在街上走过来，肩上扛着两部三轮车：一部是红的，另一部是白的。
Jack took my father's warm winter coat in exchange for those tricycles.
后来，杰克用那两部三轮车与爸爸暖和的冬季外衣作了交换。
I'll be forever thankful to my father.
我永远感谢我的爸爸。
Like a stern father, Peter J. Dubacher stands back warily as a pair of sandhill cranes caw invitingly and flutter their velvety gray feathers.
一对沙丘鹤拍动长着丝绒般灰色羽毛的双翅，发出诱人的叫声。彼得小杜巴切像一位严父一样小心翼翼地退后站着。
Mr. Dubacher, whose father was an executive chef for United Airlines, lived with his family in San Francisco and Honolulu before moving to Maplewood, N.J., and then to West Hempstead, on Long Island.
杜巴切先生的父亲是联合航空公司的一名厨师长。在举家迁往新泽西州梅普尔伍德之前，杜巴切与家人曾在旧金山和檀香山居住，后来又搬到了长岛的西亨普斯特德。
The Sydney Opera House, by the reclusive Danish architect Jorn Utzon, is the mother and father of all modern landmark buildings.
丹麦建筑师约恩·乌特松的这一作品－悉尼歌剧院－是所有现代杰出建筑的鼻祖。
Sounding more like her father's greatest rival, the lawyer and mother of three has vowed to carry on the Frazier legacy and " whip Laila's butt "--preferably in September, on the 25th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila.
弗莱契亚-莱德说起话来更像她父亲的最大对手，当过律师、已是三个孩子母亲的她发誓要将弗莱契亚家的传统发扬光大，并要 "揍莱拉的屁股 "－最好在今年 9月马尼拉纪念绥里尔拉 25周年的比赛上。
The elder, Hans Albert, would become a distinguished professor of hydraulics at the University of California, Berkeley( and, like his father, a passionate sailor).
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