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

• 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。
• Syler has two children, daughter Casey and son Cole, and she has been forced to make due with her mothering limitations.
  Syle有两个孩子，女儿Casey和儿子Cole，她被迫用自己对孩子的养育限制换来了双侧乳腺切除的权利。
• Custom of celebrating Mothering Sunday died out almost completely by the19th century.
  庆祝母亲节的习俗几乎完全消失了19世纪。
• Colleen had dreamed of mothering a large family.
  科琳曾梦想抚养一群孩子。
• It was then called Mothering Sunday.
  它当时被称为妈妈的星期天。
• 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。
• If an N type person becomes a mother, there is real mothering.
  要成为一个母亲，就是一个真正的母亲。
• 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。
• On Mothering Sunday, the servants, who generally lived with their employers, were encouraged to return home and honor their mothers. It was traditional for them to bring a special cake along to celebrate the occasion.
  在省亲节那一天，通常与雇主住在一起的仆人了，被劝说回家和他们的母亲团聚。按照惯例，他们要带一块特殊的蛋糕回家庆祝。
• The way she did it, mothering was a full-time job.
  照顾孩子于她是一件不得空闲的苦差事。