喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈstepmʌðər/ · /ˈstepmʌðə/繼母

    The woman who is married to your father and who is not your own mother — usually she joined your family when your father married again.

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo's stepmother came to the school concert with his dad.

    逐字里歐的繼母跟他爸爸一起來了學校的音樂會。

    「stepmother」就是「爸爸的太太，但不是生你的那個媽媽」，中文說「繼母」。前面的 step- 可以想成「因為一場新的婚姻而多出來的家人」，所以 stepfather（繼父）、stepsister（繼姊妹）、stepbrother（繼兄弟）都是從同一個想法長出來的字。要小心它跟 mother-in-law 不一樣：mother-in-law 是「配偶的媽媽」（婆婆／岳母），stepmother 是「爸爸的太太」，跟你自己有沒有結婚完全無關。

    常見搭配

    • become someone's stepmother

      成為某人的繼母

      to become a stepmother by marrying someone who already has children

      Aisha became my stepmother when she married my dad.

    • live with your dad and stepmother

      跟爸爸和繼母住在一起

      to have your home with your father and his wife

      During the week Leo lives with his dad and stepmother.

    • get on well with your stepmother

      跟繼母相處得很好

      to have a good, friendly relationship with your stepmother

      Zoe gets on well with her stepmother — they cook together every Sunday.

    • future stepmother

      未來的繼母

      the woman who is going to become your stepmother

      Ren met his future stepmother at a family dinner last month.

    • a wicked stepmother

      童話裡壞心的繼母

      the cruel stepmother character that appears in many fairy stories

      Every child knows the wicked stepmother from Snow White.

    意思相近

    stepmumstepmom

core核心畫面

A woman who becomes part of your family when your father marries her. She is not the mother you were born to; the step- prefix marks the tie as one made by marriage.

爸爸再婚了，於是家裡出現一位新的女性長輩。她跟你爸爸是夫妻，她在這個家裡生活、可能照顧你，但生你的不是她。跟 stepfather 完全同一個構造：step- 標示「靠婚姻接上的家人」，mother 標示她在家中站的位置。這個詞本身只是描述關係，不含褒貶——《白雪公主》那類故事把「壞繼母」寫進了很多人的印象裡，但那是故事的設定，不是這個英文字帶的意思。

複數 stepmothers

意思相近

stepmumstepmom

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

stepmothernoun/ˈstɛpmʌðə/

  • 1

    A woman who is a subsequent wife or partner of a person's parent, usually following the divorce or separation of their parents, or the death of one's biological mother.

  • 2

    biologynatural-sciencesA woman who is a subsequent wife or partner of a person's parent, usually following the divorce or separation of their parents, or the death of one's biological mother.

  • 3

    Synonym of co-mother (“the non-birth mother of a child in a lesbian couple”).

  • 4

    rarebiologybotanynatural-sciencesA viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease.

    • The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idelness.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • stepmother's blessing

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