mother a child/children
作“生育”讲时是及物动词，直接接 child/children。
She mothered three children.
她生了三个孩子。
生育；生（孩子）；成为…的母亲；使（酒等）含有醋母；使生醋母；产生醋母；长出醋母；母亲；产生
to care for someone in a kind, protective way, as a mother would; to nurture
常含温柔关爱，有时也有过度呵护的意味
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
To develop mother.
一般现在时
She mothers her children well.
她很好地照顾她的孩子。
一般过去时
He mothered the injured bird back to health.
他像母亲般照顾受伤的鸟直到它康复。
现在进行时
They are mothering the orphans with great care.
他们正以极大的关怀照顾孤儿。
(动词) 以母亲般的方式照顾
She tends to mother her younger brother even though he is already an adult.
她倾向于像母亲一样照顾她的弟弟，尽管他已经成年了。
用法提示：动词“mother”表示像母亲一样照顾某人
He always mothers his plants, watering them carefully every day.
他总是像照顾孩子一样照料他的植物，每天仔细浇水。
用法提示：动词“mother”表示精心照料
The teacher mothers the new students, making sure they feel welcome.
老师像母亲一样关怀新学生，确保他们感到受欢迎。
用法提示：动词“mother”表示关怀呵护
作“生育”讲时是及物动词，直接接 child/children。
She mothered three children.
她生了三个孩子。
此义表示把某人当作孩子一样关爱、呵护。
After their parents died, the aunt mothered the two boys.
父母去世后，姨妈像母亲般照料这两个男孩。
强调对成长和发育的长期培养，语气偏正式；不特指母亲角色，也可用于事物（如才能、兴趣）。
最普通的照顾义，可替代mother的日常用法，但缺少母亲般的感情色彩，也不含娇惯义。
侧重珍视、疼爱，带有强烈情感；多用于人或珍贵事物，不如mother常用作日常照顾。
含过分宠爱、娇惯的贬义，接近mother的负面用法（如Don't mother me），但mother也可中性。
grammar · medium
易错句子My mother mother me every day.
正确表达My mother mothers me every day.
主语是第三人称单数 mother，一般现在时谓语动词须加 -s 变为 mothers。中文动词没有词形变化，因此容易漏-s。
grammar · medium
易错句子She mothers to her little brother.
正确表达She mothers her little brother.
mother 作动词是及物动词，直接接宾语，不需要介词 to。受中文‘对…照顾’的影响，容易多加 to。
针对“像母亲般照料、养育”这一义项的反义；指未能给予应有的关心和照顾。
针对“像母亲般照料、养育”这一义项的反义；指完全离开、不再履行照料责任。
mother 用于女性，表示“生育、生下”或“像母亲般照料”；father 用于男性，表示“成为…的父亲”，主语只能是男性。
mother 强调母亲般的照顾与呵护，对象常是人；nurture 更强调促进成长发育，对象可以是人、植物、才能等。
mother 指像母亲一样照料或生育；raise 指把子女抚养长大，不限定母亲，也可指父亲或其他监护人。
生育并养育孩子
She mothered three children while finishing her degree.
她在完成学位的同时生育并养育了三个孩子。
像母亲般照料某人；呵护
He was homesick and needed someone to mother him.
他想家，需要有人像母亲般照顾他。
把丈夫当孩子一样照顾
She tends to mother her husband, picking out his clothes for him.
她往往把丈夫当孩子一样照顾，连衣服都替他挑。
母语
She speaks English as her mother tongue.
她的母语是英语。
大自然；自然之力
The crops were destroyed by Mother Nature.
庄稼被大自然摧毁了。
需要是发明之母；穷则思变
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the lack of clean water led to new purification methods.
需要是发明之母，因此缺乏清洁用水促成了新的净化方法。
Dictionary facts from DICTIONARY_API_DEV, ECDICT, WIKTIONARY, WORDNET.