Word · Frequency #494
parent
抚养；养育；当…的父母
To act as a parent to someone; to raise or rear a child.
- 1.
To act as parent, to raise or rear.
作为父母,抚养或养育。
- 2.
To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
为一个或多个其他对象提供父对象,这些对象成为子对象。
- 3.
bring up
抚养
把…设为父对象；使成为父级；作为父母,抚养或养育。；为一个或多个其他对象提供父对象,这些对象成为子对象。；抚养
In use
She learned how to parent her children with patience and understanding.
Many new parents struggle to parent effectively while balancing work and family.
They chose to parent their adopted son in a bilingual environment.
parent sb
直接接被抚养的人。
She parents her daughter alone.
她独自抚养女儿。
parent sb with sth
用某种方式或态度抚养。
They parent their children with love.
他们用爱养育孩子。
Verb forms
base parent · third person parents · -ing parenting · past parented · past participle parented
动词：养育，作为父母照顾
Common mistakes
Connections
Collocations
- parent a child
- 抚养孩子
- It takes a lot of time and energy to parent a child.抚养一个孩子需要很多时间和精力。
- parent alone
- 独自育儿
- Parenting alone can be very stressful.独自育儿可能会很有压力。
- be parented by
- 由…抚养长大
- The boy was parented by his aunt after his parents passed away.男孩的父母去世后，他由姑妈抚养长大。
- learn to parent
- 学习育儿
- Many new parents learn to parent through daily experience.许多新手父母通过日常经验学习育儿。
- parent with love
- 以爱养育
- You don't need to be perfect to parent with love.你不必完美无缺才能以爱养育孩子。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把名词 parent（父母）用作动词，就是‘当父母抚养孩子’。联想：父母对孩子做的事，正是 parenting 养育。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：parenting、childcare 作“抚养、养育”解时，语气比较正式，多用于书面语或正式讨论，如育儿书籍、教育政策或学术文章中；日常口语中更常用 raise 或 bring up。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 parent /ˈpɛrənt/ 真正押韵的是 errant /ˈɛrənt/（重读元音后的 /rənt/ 相同）。apparent 和 transparent 虽含拼写 chunk “parent”，但按所给常见发音 /əˈpærənt/、/trænsˈpærənt/ 读 /æ/，不押韵；parental 重音在后，读 /pəˈrɛntəl/，也不押韵。
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
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