英汉词典

father 基本解释

• n. 父亲，爸爸；神父；祖先；前辈
• vt. 发明，创立；当…的父亲

father 词态变化

father 中文词源

来自PIE*pater, 父亲，通常认为是来自婴儿最早能发的音pa,词源同pope, paternal.

father 英文词源

father

father: [OE] Father is the English representative of a general Indo-European family of words for ‘male parent’. Its ancestor is Indo-European pətér, which probably originated (like the words for ‘mother’, and indeed like English daddy and papa and Welsh tad ‘father’) in prearticulate syllables interpreted by proud parents as words. Its multifarious descendants include Greek patér, Latin pater (whence French père, Italian and Spanish padre – borrowed into English in the 16th century – and English pater, paternal, patriarch, patrician, patriot, and patron), Irish athair, Armenian hayr, German vater, Dutch vader, Swedish and Danish fader, and English father.

A less obvious relation is perpetrate [16]; this comes ultimately from Latin perpetrāre, a derivative of the verb patrāre, which originally meant literally ‘perform or accomplish in the capacity of a father’.
=> paternal, patriot, patron, perpetrate

father (n.)

Old English fæder "he who begets a child, nearest male ancestor;" also "any lineal male ancestor; the Supreme Being," and by late Old English, "one who exercises parental care over another," from Proto-Germanic *fader (cognates: Old Saxon fadar, Old Frisian feder, Dutch vader, Old Norse faðir, Old High German fatar, German vater; in Gothic usually expressed by atta), from PIE *pəter- "father" (cognates: Sanskrit pitar-, Greek pater, Latin pater, Old Persian pita, Old Irish athir "father"), presumably from baby-speak sound "pa." The ending formerly was regarded as an agent-noun affix.

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

[Wordsworth, 1802]

The classic example of Grimm's Law, where PIE "p-" becomes Germanic "f-." Spelling with -th- (15c.) reflects widespread phonetic shift in Middle English that turned -der to -ther in many words, perhaps reinforced in this case by Old Norse forms; spelling caught up to pronunciation in 1500s (compare mother (n.), weather (n.)). As a title of various Church dignitaries from c. 1300; meaning "creator, inventor, author" is from mid-14c.; that of "anything that gives rise to something else" is from late 14c. As a respectful title for an older man, recorded from 1550s. Father-figure is from 1954. Fathers "leading men, elders" is from 1580s.

father (v.)

c. 1400, from father (n.). Related: Fathered; fathering.

father 词组搭配

father 英文释义

1. a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father);

"his father was born in Atlanta"

2. the founder of a family;

"keep the faith of our forefathers"

3. 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"

4. a person who founds or establishes some institution;

"George Washington is the father of his country"

5. the head of an organized crime family

father 双语例句

1. I denied my father because I wanted to become someone else.

我和父亲断绝了关系，因为我想成为一个不一样的自己。

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2. Derek is now the proud father of a bouncing baby girl.

德里克现在为有一个健康活泼的女宝宝而骄傲。

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3. There was a long silence, and my father looked shamefaced.

沉默持续了很长时间，而我父亲看上去面带愧色。

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4. Father had no more than a superficial knowledge of music.

父亲对音乐只懂一点皮毛。

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5. At seventeen, Daniele was told to leave home by her father.

达妮埃尔17岁时，父亲让她离开了家。

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father 实用场景例句

You've been like a father to me.

你对我一直像父亲一样。

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Our new boss is a father of three (= he has three children) .

我们的新老板是三个孩子的父亲。

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He was a wonderful father to both his natural and adopted children.

他对亲生的和领养的子女都很好。

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(old-fashioned)Father, I cannot lie to you.

爸爸，我不能对你说谎。

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the land of our fathers

我们祖先的土地

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Henry Moore is considered to be the father of modern British sculpture.

亨利·穆尔被认为是现代英国雕塑之父。

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Father, forgive us.

天父，宽恕我们吧。

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God the Father

天父

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Father Dominic

多米尼克神父

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He claims to have fathered over 20 children.

他声称有20多个亲生子女。

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Ben's a wonderful father.

本是个极好的父亲。

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...Father William.

威廉神父

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...Our Father in Heaven.

我们的天父

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His father was a painter...

他父亲是个画家。

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He would be a good father to my children.

对我的孩子们来说，他会是个好父亲。

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She claims Mark fathered her child...

她宣称马克是孩子的父亲。

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He fathered at least three children by the wives of other men.

他跟别人的老婆至少生了 3 个孩子。

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...Max Dupain, regarded as the father of modern photography.

被视为现代摄影之父的马克斯·杜培

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...Mahatma Gandhi, the founding father of independent India.

圣雄甘地，引领印度实现独立的国父

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I would like your advice on a matter of conscience, Father.

我想就一件有关良心的事征求您的建议，神父。

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