father
n
1 male parent 父親; 爸爸: That baby looks just like her father! 那嬰兒真像她父親.
You've been (like) a father to me. 您對我一直像父親一樣. =>App 8 見附錄8.
2 (usu pl 通常作復數) ancestor 祖先
the land of our fathers 我們祖先的土地.
3 founder or first leader 創始人; 先驅; 鼻祖
city fathers 城市中德高望重的元老
the Pilgrim Fathers, ie English Puritans among the first European settlers in the USA 美國的開國先驅(最早自歐洲移居美洲的英國清教徒)
the Father of English poetry, ie Chaucer 英國詩歌之父(喬叟).
4 Father God 上帝; 圣父: Our (Heavenly) Father 我們的天父 * God the Father 上帝.
5 title of certain priests, esp those belonging to religious orders 神父.
6 (idm 習語) be gathered to one's fathers => gather. the child is father of the man => child. from ,father to `son from one generation of a family to the next 家族中從一代人至另一代人
The farm has been handed down from father to son since 1800. 該農場自1800年起一直代代相傳. like ,father, like `son (saying 諺) a son's character, actions, etc resemble, or can be expected to resemble, his father's 有其父必有其子. old enough to be sb's mother/father => old. the wish is father to the thought => wish n.
father v [Tn]
1 be the male parent of (sb); beget 做(某人的)父親; (作為父親)生育(子女)
father a child (作為父親)生個孩子.
2 (fig 比喻) create (sth); originate 發明(某物); 創始
father a plan, an idea, a project, etc 最先提出一項計畫、 一種思想、 一項設計等.
3 (phr v) father sb/sth on sb say that sb is the father or originator of sb/sth 將某人說成是某人之父或某事物之創始人
It's not my scheme; try fathering it on somebody else. 這不是我的計策, 你去問問別人看是誰出的主意吧.