give birth

英語

外語每日一詞 – 2024年10月25日

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give birth (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gives birth，現在分詞 giving birth，過去式 gave birth，過去分詞 given birth)

1. (不及物，指胎生動物) 分娩

   It was clear that she was about to give birth.

   顯然她快要分娩了。

2. (及物，+ to，指胎生動物) 生育，產下，生下

   She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.

   她生了一個漂亮的女嬰。

   • 1988, Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, 「Divorce」, 出自 Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's [個人之聲：八十年代的中國女性]‎^[1], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，第 219 頁:

     The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.

     黑龍江齊齊哈爾市屈華女士的案例就說明了這種可能性。1980年，屈華與一名名叫徐寶成的工人結婚，兩人相處得很好，直到屈華生下一個女兒。徐寶成很快便開始毆打屈華，並強迫她和孩子住在一間小棚屋裡。

   • 2022年6月1日, Collier Jennings, 「'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3 [《奧維爾號》：第三季前你需要知道的一切]」, 出自 The Collider‎^[2]:

     The rest of the Orville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when he gave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.

     奧維爾號的其他船員也經歷了變化。柏圖斯的信仰在生下一個女兒後受到了挑戰——在莫克蘭人的社會，男性是主導物種，女性必須接受強制性變性。

3. (及物，比喻義，常+ to，俗語) 創立，建立，是……的源頭

   Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.

   愛因斯坦創立了著名的能量與質量方程。

近義詞

• shit out (粗俗)

派生詞彙

• birthgiver

相關詞彙

• bear
• birth
• born
• have a/the baby

 

參見

• be born
• beget
• give rise to
• go into labor
• in labor
• procreate

 

延伸閱讀

• Childbirth在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en