Parent

(noun.) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained.

(noun.) 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.

编辑:帕特里克

• The offspring nestled to the parent; that parent, feeling the endearment and hearing the appeal, gathered her closer still. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Immediately, the venerable parent--on a cold winter's night, it is said--anathematized and turned her out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On my pointing out the great impropriety of the word, especially in connexion with his parent (for he added sulkily By her! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The guests bowed deeply to the mourning parent, and withdrew from their hospitable guide. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Jist vot I told you, my boy,' rejoined his parent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• At this period, the termination of an animal's love for its offspring,--the true affection of the human parent commences. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• By this indulgence of the fancy in its inconstancy, the tie of child and parent still preserves its full force and influence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• An arm of the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road in its implacable clutches. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• My dear,' assented her eminently practical parent, 'quite true, quite true. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He seems every thing the fondest parent could. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• By all means, he said, tell us about the child, and you shall remain in our debt for the account of the parent. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She sang the songs he asked for, with feeling; they reminded her of a parent to whom she had been truly attached; they reminded her of her young days. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is an incidental result of differences in the reproductive systems of the parent-species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I asked Caddy what had made their parents choose this profession for them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My parents were indulgent, and my companions amiable. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I dare not tell your parents yet, but I think they would consent if they knew that we adored one another. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Augustine and another brother were the only children of their parents. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She had often vainly applied to her parents, as well as to her uncle, Lord Carysfort, who only wrote to load her with reproaches. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• To her parents she never talked about this matter, shrinking from baring her heart to them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Who are your parents? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I love home, I am somewhat domestic, I love, dearly love my parents, and wish to improve the little talents God has given me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A love-child,' returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; 'parents never known; found in the street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

多米尼克整理