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美音:[bə:θ ]点这儿播放单词美音发声
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n.出生,产生,出身

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birth为高中词汇   词频:1615

词形变化:

动词过去式:birthed 过去分词:birthed 现在分词:birthing 第三人称单数:births

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birth


/bɜ:θ; bɝθ/
n
1 (a) [U] emergence of young from the mother's body; being born or bearing young 分娩; 出生; 生育
*The father was present at the (moment of) birth. 婴儿出生时其父亲在场.
* The baby weighed seven pounds at birth. 婴儿出生时重七磅.
* He has been blind from birth, ie all his life. 他自出生时就双目失明.
(b) [C] instance of this 分娩; 出生; 生育
*There were three births at the hospital yesterday. 昨天这所医院里有三个婴儿出生.
2 [C] (fig 比喻) coming into existence; beginning 起源; 开始
*the birth of capitalism, socialism, a political party, an idea 资本主义、社会主义、一个政党、一种思想的起源.
3 [U] family origin; descent 家庭出身; 门第
*of noble birth, ie from an aristocratic family 高贵身世的(出身于贵族家庭)
* She is English by birth but French by marriage. 她是英国血统, 但嫁给法国人而入了法国籍.
4 (idm 习语) give birth (to sb/sth) produce young 生孩子; 产仔
*She gave birth (to a healthy baby) last night. 她昨天晚上生了(一个健康的婴儿).
* (fig 比喻) Marx's ideas gave birth to communism. 马克思的思想孕育了共产主义.

birth


n
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old Norse;Origin: byrth]
give birth (to sb)
if a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body
 Patsy was celebrating last night after giving birth to twins.
[U and C]
the time when a baby comes out of its mother's body
 Congratulations on the birth of your daughter!
 He only weighed 2 kilos at birth .
 Henry has been blind from birth .
What's your date of birth ?
The exact place of birth is not recorded.
They believe that the position of the planets at the time of birth determines the fate of the individual.
More and more women are choosing to have home births .
Smoking in pregnancy has been linked to premature birth .
the association between birth weight and blood pressure
The drug was found to cause serious birth defects .
[singular]
the time when something new starts to exist
birth of
 the birth of a nation
 The film gave birth to a TV show of the same name.
[U]
the character, language, social position etc that you have because of the family or country you come from
 a woman of noble birth
French/German etc by birth
COLLOCATES for sense 2
at birth
from/since birth
date of birthespecially BrE
birth dateespecially AmE
place of birth
time of birth
home birth (=when a mother gives birth at home instead of in a hospital)
hospital birth (=when a mother gives birth in hospital)
premature birth (=when a baby is born earlier than it should be)
stillbirth (=when a baby is born dead)
multiple birth (=when a mother gives birth to two babies or more at the same time)
birth weight
birth defect (=something wrong with a baby when it is born)

1. Birth is much, but breeding is more.
    出身重要,教养更重要。

2. But with such a large population base, the country must still convert millions more to the idea of birth control if it is to reach its population targets.
    但是因为该国的人口基数十分大,要想达到政府的人口目标,印尼还必须再转变几百万人的思想,让他们接受节制生育的观念。

3. With the passage of time and the birth of grandchildren, their mothers accepted their marriage.
    随着时间的流逝,随着孙子和外孙的出世,他们的母亲都认可了他们的婚姻。

4. The day after the birth of the five children, an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers.
    五胞胎降生第二天,一架飞机飞抵阿拜丁,随机带来60名记者与摄影师。

5. The government has succeeded in increasing use of birth control from 10 percent of the population 20 years ago to 49 percent today.
    印尼政府已成功地扩大了实行节制生育的范围,节育人口已从20年前的10%增加到今天的49%。

6. Then in 1980 the birth of her son added a new element to her work.
    而后,1980年儿子的诞生给她的工作增加了新的成分。"

7. Twins separated at birth do sometimes share personality characteristics, but such characteristics in a cloned son or daughter would only be reminders of the child who was lost.
    一出生就被分离的双胞胎,有时可能有相同的个性特征,但是这种相同的个性特征表现在克隆的儿子或女儿身上,只能令人想起失去的孩子。

8. They can bring egg and sperm together artificially and dispose of any affected baby before placing it in the mother, or before birth — though that might be objectionable, too.
    他们也可以人工授精,然后在将受精卵植入母体之前,或在生育之前,放弃有遗传缺陷的胎儿——尽管这也可能引起反对;

9. Total darkness came as a result of a swelling of the nerve leading to his eye — a condition that was unrelated to the eye disease that had limited his vision since birth.
    双目失明是由视神经发炎膨胀造成的--这病与他的眼疾无关。自出生起他就有眼疾,视力有限。

10. He is of no birth.
    他出身低微。

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