5the father of somethingINVENTthe man who was responsible for starting something 某事物的创始人,某事物之父
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.
弗洛伊德是精神分析之父。
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the father of something• At another, he deals badly with his role as the father of a deafson.• Tests to ascertainthe father of the child.• If I hadn't run away and made good, you'd never have been the father ofLadyFirth.• Sigmund Freud, the father ofpsychoanalysis, was born in 1856.• George Washington is the father of our country.• In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding.• He gently and rather apologetically wrote and sent to the father of the student the two letters of which complaint is made.• Lowe was the real father ofmoderncomputing and a very important figure in IBM's ranks.
This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son.
在这一地区,古老的手艺父子相传。
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from father to son• The centuries' old recipe has been handed down from father to son.• The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son.• This means that haremfemales are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion.• Their status was hereditary, land and titles being passed on from father to son.• Land passes from father to son: his is split between himself and his father.• The wholegentileconstitution made the transference of private property from father to sonimpossible.• The eyes of those in the room shifted uneasily from father to son.
7.like father like sonLIKE/SIMILARused to say that a boybehaves like his father, especially when this behaviour is bad 有其父必有其子
8.a bit of how’s your fatherBritish EnglishBrE informalSEX/HAVE SEX WITH the act of having sex – used humorously 性交〔幽默用法〕
1RRCa way of talking to or talking about God, used in the Christianreligion 天父〔基督教里用于称呼上帝〕
our Heavenly Father
我们的天父
GOD 上帝
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Heavenly Father• Amen Heavenly Father, we pray for the talks about peace in the MiddleEast.• The Umpire - it had to be Heavenly Father!• But Heavenly Father is out of earshot.• What has happened is nothing short of a miracle; Heavenly Father has heard our prayers.• Tell Heavenly Father what was in your heart of hearts.• I thankHeavenly Father, for it is the only escape I can think of.• In a vision given to one of his followers, the Heavenly Father stated that the Biblecontainederrors.
father2 verb [transitiveT]
1BABY/HAVE A BABYto become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant 成为…的父亲
Hodgkins fathered seven children.
霍奇金斯育有七个子女。
2START something/MAKE something START formal to start an important new idea or system 首先提出,创立〔新思想或新体系〕
Bevan fathered the concept of the National Health Service.
比万首先提出了国民医疗服务体系的概念。
3father something on somebodyphrasal verbphr vBritish EnglishBrESAY/STATE formal to claim that someone is responsible for something when they are not 把〔责任、某物的来源等〕误加于某人
A collection of Irish stories was fathered on him.
他被误传为一本爱尔兰故事集的作者。
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father on • He repeated the words and phrases while his father looked proudly on.• Nature makes mothers but societies have to make fathers.• Her father jumped on the croc and wrestled her out of its jaws.• Helen Saltonstall, my mother, married Amon Dempster, my father, on the first Sunday in October, 1869.• My father, on the other hand, could not be so easily summed up in a singlepaternalnickname.• In other words, it was the sins of the father getting visited on the son.• His father died onThursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday's race.
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father• Taylor denies fathering her 4-month-old son.• Elephantseals are so severely sieved that in each generation a handful of males father all the offspring.• An apparentsuicidenote found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man.• Bill was told he would never be able to father children.• He fathered eight daughters and three sons.• All the portraits in this book show men who father from the heart, but none more than this one.• He fathered nine children with four women and the unpaid amounts totaled $ 25,000.• In other versions, Zeus rapes Demeter and fathers Persephone.• I do not know how I can have fathered such children.• Roosevelt fathered the concept of SocialSecurity.• Unfortunately, Edison was not himself a musician, and the technology he fathered was never used for mass-producing seriousmusicalrecords.