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parental

/puh-ren-tl/US // pəˈrɛn tl //UK // (pəˈrɛntəl) //

家长,父母,父母亲,父母亲的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a parent.
    • : proper to or characteristic of a parent: parental feelings.
    • : having the relation of a parent
    • : Genetics. pertaining to the sequence of generations preceding the filial generation, each generation being designated by a P followed by a subscript number indicating its place in the sequence.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Usually the parentals .

    • : Informal. one's parent: I'm headed for a vacation with the parentals.Also called pa·ren·tal u·nit [puh-ren-tl yoo-nit] /pəˈrɛn tl ˈyu nɪt/ .

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Examples

  • From the time she started a literacy center for low-income families, as a young teacher, to her time as principal at Central Elementary in City Heights, which thrived with improved test scores, high staff morale and increased parental involvement.

  • Describing itself as a “collection of scientists, parents, and designers,” Nanit focuses almost entirely on products and services geared toward parental child care.

  • Amid echoes of parental warnings that too much TV will “rot your brain,” it’s worth asking if there is value in the tube’s ability to help us escape.

  • Every age has its own parenting wisdom as well as its shameful parental anxieties.

  • It is your parental responsibility to build this path forward, so this event can be a lesson learned, not a stain on her entire personhood.

  • Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.

  • The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.

  • Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.

  • The court papers are sealed, but the couple has made it clear they want to be relieved of their parental responsibilities.

  • The parental fold may be about to envelope you—and yet also drive you mad.

  • Jacob cheated his brother out of the parental blessing, and lied about God, and lied to his father to accomplish his end.

  • Aristide composed his face into an expression of parental interest; but within him there was shivering and sickening upheaval.

  • Soon after Jane had entered her fourteenth year, she left her grandmother's and returned to her parental home.

  • Gradually the girls had won round parental objections and collected the things they would need.

  • It was at the crisis of parting at the station that it seemed to me necessary to give William a word of parental advice.