7PHRASE 使产生;使诞生 To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist. 使产生;使诞生
In 1980, strikes at the Lenin Shipyards gave birth to the Solidarity trade union.
1980年,列宁造船厂的罢工致使团结工会得以成立。
8PHRASE 出生的(地方) The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born. 出生的(地方)
Quotations
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afarWilliam WordsworthOde: Intimations of Immortality
Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks: Birth, and copulation and death. I've been born, and once is enoughT.S. EliotSweeney Agonistes
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the otherFrancis BaconOn Death
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the intervalGeorge SantayanaSoliloquies in England
ADJECTIVE | VERB + BIRTH | BIRTH + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤live活產◇Better living conditions mean more live births and fewer still births.生活條件改善,活產嬰數會增加,死產嬰數會減少。➤normal正常分娩;順產➤difficult難產➤breech臀位分娩▸➤Caesarean, vaginal剖宮產;陰道分娩➤natural (= without the use of drugs)自然分娩➤premature, preterm早產▸➤multiple多胎產▸➤illegitimate, out-of-wedlock (NAmE) 非婚生▸➤home, hospital在家中/醫院分娩➤water (= in water)水中分娩VERB + BIRTH➤give生孩子◇She gave birth to a baby boy.她生了一個小男孩。➤register登記出生➤celebrate慶祝出生◇They recently celebrated the birth of their second daughter.不久前他們慶祝了第二個女兒降生。➤await等待出生◇He was anxiously awaiting the birth of his child.他在焦急地等待孩子出生。➤announce宣佈出生➤attend接生◇A doctor and three midwives attended the birth.一位醫生和 3 名助產士給接生的。BIRTH + NOUN➤certificate出生證明➤records出生記錄➤date出生日期➤place (usually birthplace)出生地▸➤weight (usually birthweight)出生體重➤process出生過程➤complications分娩併發症➤defect出生缺陷➤canal產道◇the mother's birth canal母親的產道➤mother生母➤attendant (= person who assists a woman giving birth)助產士➤partner (= person a woman chooses to be with when giving birth)分娩伴侶➤plan分娩計劃◇You should prepare a birth plan with your obstetrician.你應該跟你的產科大夫一起制訂一個分娩計劃。➤announcement出生通告▸➤rate出生率◇a low / high birth rate低/高出生率(see also birth control)PREPOSITION➤at birth出生時◇The baby weighed seven pounds at birth.這個嬰兒出生時體重是 7 磅。➤at a/the birth, during a/the birth在出生的時候/過程中◇The child's father was present at the birth.孩子出生時爸爸在場。➤by birth在出身上◇He was American by birth, but lived in France.他出生在美國,但住在法國。PHRASES➤births, deaths and marriages, births, marriages and deaths出生、死亡和結婚;出生、結婚和死亡◇announcements of births, marriages and deaths出生、結婚和死亡通告➤your date of birth, your place of birth出生日期/地點▸➤of low birth, of noble birth (bothold-fashioned) 出身低微/高貴➤the moment of birth出生時刻