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mothering

/muhth-er-ing/US // ˈmʌð ər ɪŋ //

育儿,孕育,孕产,母爱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the nurturing of an infant or small child by its mother.
    • : the custom of visiting one's parents on Laetare Sunday with a present.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as innurse
Synonyms
cradle支架,摇篮,发源地,摇篮式feed饲料,喂,饲养,饲喂keep an eye on关注,关照,关心,密切关注look after看护,照看,照顾,顾nourish滋养,滋润,滋补,颐养take care of照顾,照顾好,照看,照料vaccinate接种,接种疫苗,注射疫苗,注射advance进展,晋级,进展情况,预付款aid援助attend参加,出席,出席会议,参会baby-sit照看婴儿,照顾婴儿,看护婴儿,坐月子cherish珍惜,珍视,爱惜,珍爱cultivate培养,栽培,培育,培植encourage鼓励,激励,励,励志father父亲,爸爸,爹爹,父forward谈到这个foster培养,促进,养育,培育further进一步,更进一步,进一步推动,进一步推进harbor港湾,庇佑,港,港湾式humor幽默,幽默感,幽默风趣,幽默的immunize免疫,免疫接种,免疫注射,免疫治疗indulge纵容,放任自流,放纵,放纵自己inoculate接种,注射,接种疫苗,注入irradiate照射,辐照,辐射,焕发medicate用药,吃药,服药,服用药物mother母亲,妈妈,母,娘nurture抚育,培养,培育,养育pamper呵护,宠爱,娇惯,呵护着preserve维护,保存,保全,保护promote促进,推动,推广,推销serve服务,服务于,服役,服用sit坐,坐在,坐下来,坐下succor帮助,帮助他人,帮助你,帮助别人support支持,支助,支撑,支持率treat治疗keep alive保住性命,保住生命,保持活力,活着keep tabs on监视,密切关注,密切注意,监视着minister to牧师到,牧师,牧师来see to见于,见至,见给,请看take charge of负责,掌管,担任,担当wait on等候,等着,等着吧,等一下watch out for当心,注意,小心,小心翼翼watch over看守着,看护,看守,守护

Examples

  • In other words, the gap in mothering time may be shrinking between less-educated and well-educated moms.

  • They gave birth and then were thrown into mothering as if it were a journey that one should be forced to embark on all alone.

  • Making mothering and working an either/or robs us all of the powerful contributions mothers make to our economy.

  • At the beginning of the series, she had a husband in prison; she had kids that required a great deal of hands-on mothering.

  • They are now raising a 5-year-old boy who Jennifer is incapable of mothering.

  • But the problem, says Badinter, is how those values have changed—morphing into a style of mothering she calls “crushing.”

  • And then, of course, there was poor Hester Prynne—branded with a scarlet letter for mothering a child with another man.

  • He was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.

  • For behind the mothering words lurked, he knew, the other self that any minute would return.

  • And a hint of mothering contentment stole sweetly over him behind this shadowy yet genuine consolation.

  • She smiled lazily as she reflected that he would take to mothering; his curly hair begged to be smoothed and tousled.

  • The little maid repaid him with a passionate love and a quaint mothering care tender and infinitely comforting to the lonely man.