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. 父亲
His father was a painter. 他父亲是一位画家。
He would be a good father to my children. 他会成为我孩子们的好父亲。
2. V-T When a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and their child is born. 是…的父亲
She claims Mark fathered her child. 她声称马克是她孩子的父亲。
3. N-COUNT The man who invented or started something is sometimes referred to as the father of that thing. 发明者; 创始人
...Max Dupain, regarded as the father of modern photography. …被认为是现代摄影之父的马科斯∙杜庞。