father

柯林斯词典

1. N-FAMILY Your father is your male parent. You can also call someone your father if he brings you up as if he were this man. 父親
His father was a painter. 他父親是一位畫家。
He would be a good father to my children. 他會成爲我孩子們的好父親。
2. V-T When a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and their child is born. 是…的父親
She claims Mark fathered her child. 她聲稱馬尅是她孩子的父親。
3. N-COUNT The man who invented or started something is sometimes referred to as the father of that thing. 發明者; 創始人
...Max Dupain, regarded as the father of modern photography. …被認爲是現代攝影之父的馬科斯∙杜龐。