1.British EnglishBrEMOTHERmother 妈妈SYN American English mom
2.mum’s the wordspokenTELL A SECRET used to tell someone that they must not tell other people about a secret 别声张,不要讲出去,要保密
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mum• In the vastmajority of cases this means giving them a mum and dad.• And for mums with their hands full, there's a trouble-freecontainer.• John, desperate to keep his throne, sticks close to his mum for comfort.• When the last hymn is sung, it's time to joinmums and dads over the road at the church.• Now my mum and dad come to just about every concert.• My mum and dad won't mind if you want to stay the night.• Being a singlemum is never easy.• A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind.
mum2adjectiveadj
keep muminformalTELL A SECRET to not tell anyone about a secret 别声张,要保密
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keep mum• In politics, as in life, truthhurts.Better to keep mum.• The grinningskull on the back of the mystery woman's jacket is keeping mum.• So, darling, keep mum about where we are.• Far right: Septimus keeps Mum and Dadawake.• That obviously includes me, so your mum's got to keep mum, chick.
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mum• Course when I was up there, everything was mum.• The designer and the White House are mum about colors and particulars.• Bushremainedmum when the Rev.
(BrE) (NAmEmom) (informal) ADJECTIVE | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤young年輕媽媽➤single, unmarried單身/未婚媽媽➤lesbian同性戀媽媽➤career, working職業/有工作的媽媽➤full-time, stay-at-home全職/居家媽媽➤welfare (NAmE) 接受福利救濟的媽媽➤security, soccer (both NAmE) 安全媽媽;(開車接送孩子參加體育活動的)足球媽媽➤celebrity, TV名人/電視媽媽➤suburban住在郊區的媽媽➤proud自豪的媽媽➤busy忙碌的媽媽➤cool, good, great很酷的媽媽;好媽媽;偉大的媽媽➤expectant, pregnant (also mum-to-be in BrE)準媽媽➤new剛做媽媽的人◇The group is aimed at new mums with young babies.這個團體是專為有新生寶寶的媽媽設立的。➤surrogate代理媽媽◇The cat acted as a surrogate mum to the chicks.這隻貓當起了小雞的代理媽媽。➤birth, real親媽◇Ellie had always been there for him even though she wasn't his real mum.埃莉雖然不是他的親媽,但一直在照顧他。PHRASES➤mum and dad媽媽和爸爸