parent

1 They just made me promise that Katie’s parents would drop me off at church at nine o’clock.

2 On second thought, there is something you’d like to ask your parents.

3 They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents’ house—my more than sister—the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.

4 I know plenty of kids, Muslim and not, who envy the trust my parents have in me.

5 And I watch a mind movie of me being the only girl without flowers marching in to see all the parents.

6 “You don’t think his parents would rather he was dating somebody black?” said Moody.

7 He learns to love the food she and her parents eat, the polenta and risotto, the bouillabaisse and osso buco, the meat baked in parchment paper.

8 He is distracted by the telephone ringing, by his parents and Sonia talking and moving through the house.

9 I nibble on a carrot stick as Emily talks about how her dad owns his own construction business and Soojin shares her parents’ challenges running their deli.

10 She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents’ house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people’s dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes.

11 Charles knew that Emma was torn about leaving Maer, and leaving her sister Elizabeth alone to care for her sick parents.

12 My parents refuse to hear my explanation of why I need another day at home, and come Tuesday morning, I’m forced to put on jeans and a sweater.

13 Schools closed, parents panicked, and the public grew desperate for a vaccine.

14 These animals ate all their crops and from time to time they even carried off children who wandered away from their parents.

15 Even when he struck gold last year, when his parents finally divorced, it wasn’t long before his luck ran dry.

16 My parents were so overwrought that they gave up having any more children and devoted their lives to doing good work among the poor and hungry.”

17 Both of my parents got really, really quiet all of a sudden, and I knew this was not a good sign.

18 Don’t parents already have enough to worry about?

19 The veterans learned she had been raised in the small town of Athens, Ohio, where her parents, both Chinese immigrants, were on the faculty at Ohio University.

20 Matilda's parents owned quite a nice house with three bedrooms upstairs, while on the ground floor there was a dining-room and a living-room and a kitchen.

1 做…的父亲

sire

2 总部

HQ base headquarters head office

3 家长

sheikh householder Goodman oubaas master lord patriarch sheik paterfamilias a man of the house

4 保护者

protectoral ensure protection shield guardian patron shepherd conservator preserver tower protector

5 母公司

parent company

6 母亲

mother ma mater Mata maternal motherly mummy parental mom momma matriarchal progenitor dam madre mumsie materfamilias

7 母

female parental cow

8 引起

-factive -facient causative evocation incurrence lead account make work take start create mean cause effect develop produce claim challenge gain raise draw earn operate generate strike inspire trigger attract wake occasion extract breed stir excite incur originate induce spawn tempt provoke evoke procure underlie incense pique beget evince set an edge on give birth to

9 养父

father

10 前辈

predecessor forefather

11 产生

-facient born generative generation emanation naissance -ate come form develop grow appear spring rise flow arise originate accrue germinate engender procreate make work take give create return stop produce draw operate generate inspire birth yield beget bring into existence bring into life come into being come into existence

12 起因

spring signal fountain causation

13 父母

parental people

14 鼻祖

progenitor

15 起源

rise principle birth origin vein genesis germ ancestry provenance derivation parentage filiation radix begin growing point beginning rootstock headspring of spring

16 本源

fontal source mother spring fountainhead fons et origo

17 母体

matrix stem base population generator precursor generatrix

18 原因

causal why cause account reason source factor seed occasion origin wherefore causation call ground score root principle sake with background know-why skill matter bottom instance starter spawn breeder etiology

19 双亲

parental biparental folk foozle

20 父亲

paternal fatherly father governor pater guv begetter paterfamilias papa sire baba baap bapu daddy père parental Bapu progenitor gaffer genitor

21 亲本

progenitor parental

22 总公司

corporation

23 父

parental father

24 父母的

parental

25 根源的

germinal fontal

26 先人

ascendant

27 养母

mother

28 根源

germinal fontal whence mother father spring root principle seed germ authorship rootstock fountainhead rootage fons et origo source fountain mischief radix center bottom centre origin spore headspring First Cause Germinal base birth font nerve spawn taproot

29 祖先

ancestral antecessor primogenitor stirps people father root ancestor grandfather predecessor ancestry forerunner forefather progenitor antecedent forebear grandsire race stock patriarch heredity tupuna elder ascendant sire foregoer grandmother genitor

30 生育

plant generation breeding procreation have generate procreate

31 父亲的

paternal fatherly