father

n. 父亲, 祖先, 长辈, 神父, 创始者
vt. 当...的父亲, 保护, 创作, 发明, 培养

动词过去式:fathered 过去分词:fathered 现在分词:fathering 第三人称单数:fathers 

fa.ther

n.（名词）
A man who begets or raises or nurtures a child.
父亲：生育、抚养或教养孩子的人
A male parent of an animal.
父：动物的雄性生养者
A male ancestor.
男性祖先
A man who creates, originates, or founds something:
创立者：创始、发明或建立某事物的人：
例句：
Chaucer is considered the father of English poetry.
乔叟被看作是英国诗歌之父

An early form; a prototype.
原形：早期的形式；原形
Father
Father
God.
神，上帝
The first person of the Christian Trinity.
基督：基督教第一人
An elderly or venerable man. Used as a title of respect.
前辈，长者：一个年长并受尊敬的人。用作敬称
A member of the senate in ancient Rome.
元老：古罗马议会的一员
One of the leading men, as of a city:
市长：城市的领导者：
例句：
the town fathers.
镇长

Or Father A church father.
或 Father 教父
Abbr. Fr.
缩写 Fr.
A priest or clergyman in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches.
神父：罗马天主教或盎格鲁教的牧师或神父
Used as a title and form of address with or without the clergyman`s name.
神职人员：用作带或不带牧师姓名时的一种头衔和称呼
v.（动词）
fa.thered,fa.ther.ing,fa.thers
v.tr.（及物动词）
To procreate (offspring) as the male parent.
作为父亲生养（后代）
Usage Problem To act or serve as a father to (a child).
【用法疑难】 作为父亲对待（孩子）
To create, found, or originate.
创造，成立，发明
To acknowledge responsibility for.
确定责任：对…承认责任


To attribute the paternity, creation, or origin of.
认为是…的父亲、创造或起源
To assign falsely or unjustly; foist.
错误地或不公平地继承；冒称
v.intr.Usage Problem （不及物动词）【用法疑难】
To act or serve as a father.
保护：像父亲一样对待

来源：
Middle English fader
中古英语 fader
from Old English fôder * see p…ter-
源自 古英语 fôder *参见 p…ter-

The verbfather has come to be used widely to mean specifically to .perform the child-rearing functions of a father,.particularly in the gerundfathering, as inFathering a step-child takes considerable tact and understanding. This usage reflects the same social changes that have led to the analogous use of the verbparent and has met with the same kinds of critical resistance.In the most recent surveythe example cited was rejected by '4 percent of the Usage Panel.A problem particular to this use offather is that it may occasion opportunities for humorous misconstruction,since it is in direct competition with the older sense of .beget.. ·It is notablethat the analogous use ofmother as a verb meaning specifically .to perform the child-rearing functions of a mother. is encountered only rarely.It is likely that the discrepancy in the frequency of these new uses ofmother and father reflects the fact that recent writers on family life have tended to place more emphasis on a reconceptualization of the traditional paternal role in child-rearing.See Usage Note at parent
动词father 被广泛应用， 尤指.履行一个父亲养育孩子的职责.，特别是动名词fathering， 如在抚育养子得花费巨大的心智和理解 。 这种用法反应了引起动词parent 相似用法的同样社会变化， 并遭到了同样的批评反对。在最近的调查中，引用的例子被用法专题使用小组'4%的成员反对。特别对于father 这种用法的一个问题是， 它可能会引起幽默的误解，因为它直接与旧观念的.生育.冲突。值得注意的是，mother 作为动词的相似用法意思特指.履行一个母亲生养孩子的职责.， 这种用法很少见。看起来mother 和 father 这些新用法出现频率的不一致反映了一个事实， 那就是近期家庭生活题材的作者们倾向于将更多的重点放在重新定义父母在抚养孩子上所充任的传统角色参见 parent