Word · Frequency #364
Father
生育；充当…的父亲；抚养
To sire (a child) or to act as a father to (someone), supporting and nurturing them.
- 1.
To be a father to; to sire.
- 2.
To give rise to.
- 3.
To act as a father; to support and nurture.
- 4.
To provide with a father.
- 5.
To adopt as one's own.
开创；发起；产生；收养；使…有父亲；给…当父亲；当...的父亲；保护
In use
He fathered three children before he turned thirty.
She fathered the innovative design that won the award.
The coach fathers his players by mentoring them on and off the field.
father sb
此义表示“生育”，主语通常为男性。
He fathered a son and a daughter.
他育有一儿一女。
father sth
该义表示“开创、发起”，宾语多为抽象名词。
The scientist fathered a new field of study.
这位科学家开创了一个新的研究领域。
be fathered by sb
被动形式用于强调孩子的生父身份。
The child was fathered by a famous actor.
Connections
Collocations
- father a child
- 成为父亲；生育孩子
- He always wanted to father a child.他一直想要一个孩子。
- father an idea
- 提出并推动一个想法
- Many credit him with fathering the idea of the local festival.许多人认为当地节日的想法是他开创的。
- father a movement
- 发起一场运动
- He helped father the movement for voting reform.他帮助发起了投票改革运动。
- father a nation
- 缔造一个国家；成为国父
- He is honored for fathering the modern nation.他因缔造这个现代国家而受到尊敬。
Pop culture & quotes
- No, I am your father.
- 不，我是你父亲。Darth Vader says this to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), revealing that he is Luke's father.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
父亲（father）当动词：生育孩子，也孕育想法或事业——'孕育'就是创造、开创。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、news reports、literary works 动词 father 多用于正式或书面语境，如新闻报道、正式演讲和文学作品中；日常口语中表示“生孩子”时更常用 have children。
Grammar Note
及物动词，后接宾语
Pronunciation & Spelling
在美式英语中，father 和 bother 韵脚相同（都以 /ðɚ/ 结尾），因此押韵。但注意 mother、other、rather、gather、lather 虽也以 -ther 结尾，但元音分别为 /ʌ/、/ʌ/、/æ/、/æ/、/æ/，与 father 的 /ɑ/ 不同，故不押韵。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 5，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY, WORDNET.