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maternal mother
Relating to or characteristic of a mother or motherhood; motherly: maternal instinct.
Inherited from one's mother: a maternal trait.
Related through one's mother: my maternal uncle.
adj.
1. 母親的; 似母親的
2. 母系的
3. 從母方繼承的
例句:
She showed her daughter's picture with maternal pride.
她懷著作為母親的自豪感拿出女兒的照片給人看。
maternity
The state of being a mother; motherhood.
The feelings or characteristics associated with being a mother; motherliness.
A maternity ward.
Relating to or effective during pregnancy, childbirth, or the first months of motherhood:
n.
1.母性; 母道; 懷孕
2.產科病房;產科醫院
adj.產婦的, 產后的, 懷孕的
例句:
Trainee nurses have to work for some weeks in maternity.
受訓的護士必須在產科病房工作數周。
matron
A married woman or a widow, especially a mother of dignity, mature age, and established social position.
A woman who acts as a supervisor or monitor in a public institution, such as a school, hospital, or prison.
n.
1. 年長的已婚婦女(尤指品格高尚的)
2. 主婦; 保姆
3. (學校等的)女主任; 女舍監; 護士長; (婦女組織等的)女主席; 總干事
matrix
A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained
The womb
Mathematics A rectangular array of numeric or algebraic quantities subject to mathematical operations.
A mold or die
n.
1.母體,發源地:可產生、發展或包含其它物的地點或環境;子宮
2.【數學】矩陣:用于數學運算的數值量和代數量的矩形陣列;模型或模具
例句:
“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom”(&b{Benjamin N. Cardozo})
“言論自由幾乎是任何一種自由形式的母體和不可缺少的條件”(本杰明N.卡多佐)
matrimony
The act or state of being married; marriage.
n.結婚, 婚姻; 夫婦關系, 婚姻生活, 婚禮
例句:
He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.
他已經擺脫了婚姻的枷鎖。
metropolis
詞匯起源
16] A metropolis is etymologically a ‘mother city’. The word comes via late Latin mētropolis from Greek mētrópolis, a compound formed from métēr ‘mother’ (a distant relative of English mother) and pólis ‘city’ (source of English police, policy, politics, etc).
A major city, especially the chief city of a country or region: Chicago, the metropolis of the Midwest.
A city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity: a great cultural metropolis.
Ecclesiastical. The chief see of a metropolitan bishop.
The mother city or country of an overseas colony, especially in ancient Greece.
n.
1.大都市;首都;首府[the S]
2.(工商業等的)中心都市,中心[C]
metropolitan
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city: crowded metropolitan streets; a metropolitan newspaper. Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns: the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area; a metropolitan county.
Of, relating to, or constituting the home territory of an imperial or colonial state.
A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values.
adj. 主要城市的;大城市的;大都會的;屬大城市的;具有大城市居民氣派的
n. 大城市人;具有大城市氣派的人
例句:
Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.
大都市的居民習慣于快節奏。