mothering

英 [ˈmʌðərɪŋ]

美 [ˈmʌðərɪŋ]

n.  呵护; 照料
v.  给以母亲的关爱; 像母亲般地照顾
mother的现在分词

现在分词：mothering　

BNC.22445

牛津词典

noun

• 呵护；照料
  the act of caring for and protecting children or other people
  1. an example of good/poor mothering
     良好呵护的范例；照顾不周的例子

柯林斯词典

• N-FAMILY 母亲;妈妈
  Yourmotheris the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone yourmotherif she brings you up as if she was this woman.
  1. She sat on the edge of her mother's bed...
     她坐在母亲床边。
  2. She's an English teacher and a mother of two children...
     她是英语教师，还是两个孩子的母亲。
  3. Mother and child form a close attachment...
     母子情深。
  4. I'm here, Mother.
     我在这儿呢，妈妈。
• VERB (通常指母亲)照看，抚养，养育
  If a womanmothersa child, she looks after it and brings it up, usually because she is its mother.
  1. Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family.
     科琳曾梦想抚养一群孩子。
• VERB 爱护;溺爱
  If youmothersomeone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child.
  1. She felt a great need to mother him...
     她迫切地感到要细心照料他。
  2. Stop mothering me.
     别再宠我了。

双语例句

• During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday".
  在公元17世纪，英国出现了一个叫做妈妈的星期天的节日。
• What was missing was good mothering.
  还缺少良好的母爱。
• Interestingly, later on a religious order stretched the holiday to include all mothers, and named it as the Mothering Sunday.
  有趣的是，宗教秩序的改革使得这一节日包括了全体的母亲，并将这一日命名为母亲节。
• The English colonists settled in America discontinued the tradition of Mothering Sunday because of lack of time.
  后来，在美国定居的英国殖民者由于缺少时间停止了这项传统。
• His love interest spends the entire film taking care of him, feeding him, mothering him.
  他对爱的渴望在整个故事里照顾他，滋养他，保护他。
• Psychoanalysis, however, has not had an adequate theory of the reproduction of mothering.
  然而，心理分析还没有一个解释母职再生产的完整理论。
• On mothering day the servants would have the day off.
  母亲节那天，仆人可以请一天假。
• She took to mothering like a duck to water.
  她很快就对母亲这一角色驾轻就熟了。
• Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family.
  科琳曾梦想抚养一群孩子。
• More like the modern celebration of Mother's Day is England's "Mothering Sunday", also called Mid-Lent Sunday, observed on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
  与现代庆祝母亲节方式更为相似的是英国的“拜望双亲日”，亦称为中-四旬斋星期日，为四旬斋的第四个星期日。