parent

英[ˈpeərənt]美[ˈperənt]

n.父亲（或母亲），先辈，根源，起源，保护者；

复数：parents;

例句

an intestate parent无遗嘱的父母

the parent’s careworn face家长愁云密布的脸

Industry is the parent of success.勤奋是成功之母出自：英语名言

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.新奇生乐趣。出自：英语谚语

Caution is the parent of safety.小心驶得万年船。出自：英语谚语

She knew first-hand the impact an unsteady parent could have on a sensitive young girl.她有亲身体验，知道情绪变化无常的家长对一个敏感的小女孩会产生什么影响。

The child's same-sex parent acts as a role model.孩子的同性家长是孩子效仿的榜样。

The overworked, overextended parent may be seen as unloving, but may simply be exhausted.那位操劳过度的家长看起来好像并不疼爱孩子，但实际上可能是太累的缘故。

These executives are on loan, retaining their seniority and pension rights in the parent company.这些人员都是临时性的, 他们在母公司中仍然保留原职原薪以及原有的住宅.

They grew up in one - parent families or with stepmothers and stepfathers.他们在单亲家庭里长大或是继父继母带大的.

英语六级真题

Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.

Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.

While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.

We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.

Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.

Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.

Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.

High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.

Extracurricular activities reflect the differences in child rearing in the Pew survey, which was of a nationally representative sample of 1,807 parents.

Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely, she said.

But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

Yet even then reports of widespread youth rebellion were overdone: Most kids in the ‘60s and ‘70s shared their parents' basic values.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

They think of their parents with affection and respect.

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

Some young people like to keep something to themselves and don't want their parents to know about it.

Results of USA WEEKEND's Teens & Parents survey reveal a generation of young people who get along well with their parents and approve of the way they're being raised.

Parents are concerned that their children may get involved in criminal offences once they reach their teens.

No wonder parents worry their own kids might spin out of control once they hit the turbulent waters of adolescence.

Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.

Most feel that their parents understand them, and they believe their family is the No.

Many even think their parents are cool! Although more than a third have an object in their rooms they would like to keep secret from their parents, rarely is it anything more alarming than a diary or offcolor ( ' , 低俗的) book or CD.

And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.

1 priority in their parents' lives.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like acting before thinking and persistence in reaching goals.

Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushed and short on quality time with their children, friends and partners.

While most parents, teachers and clinicians would react to an adolescent using drugs or getting drunk, they may easily overlook teenagers who are engaging in inconspicuous behaviors.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

Their risky behaviors—drinking too much alcohol, using illegal drugs, smoking cigarettes and skipping school—can alert parents and teachers that serious problems are brewing.

Carli says that one of the most significant things about his study is that it provides new early-warning signs for parents, teachers and mental health-care providers.

Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations arc overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students.

And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake city, with high levels of two- parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.

Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.

Whereas some of the low-self-control study members are more likely to be single parents with a very low income and the parent is in poor health and likely to be a heavy substance abuser.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

父母

Your parents are your mother and father.

例句

ADJ

创始的；母公司的；总公司的

An organization's parent organization is the organization that created it and usually still controls it.

例句

ADJ

（动物、植物或有机体）亲本的，亲代的

The parent animal, plant, or organism of a particular animal, plant or organism is the one that it comes from or is produced by.

例句

英汉词典释义

n.

父亲, 母亲; 家长

（动、植物的）亲本，亲代，父本，母本

创始公司，母公司，总部

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

Verb

1. bring up;

行业词典

计算机： (双)亲，父(代)，母(体)；【NT】上层；父类；