daughter
daughter — 名詞
- daughtersingular
- daughtersplural
1. a girl or woman considered in relation to her parents — the female child whom th
女兒
自己的女性子女
a girl or woman considered in relation to her parents — the female child whom they have raised or adopted.
The Atakans' daughter Defne planted roses with her father in the back garden last weekend.
Atakan 家的女兒 Defne 上週末和父親在後院種了玫瑰。
possessive: daughter's / father and daughter
Erik took a photo of his daughter Iris on her first day of school.
Erik 拍下女兒 Iris 第一天上學的照片。
Their daughter Imani finished college, and her parents flew to the city for the ceremony.
他們的女兒 Imani 大學畢業時，父母飛到城裡參加典禮。
genitive: daughter's graduation / parent–daughter bond
The Okonkwo family celebrated their daughter's fifth birthday with a big party at the park.
Okonkwo 一家在公園舉辦派對，慶祝女兒的五歲生日。
collocation: daughter's birthday / possessive
The Yamadas' daughter Sayaka calls her mother every evening to share news about her day.
Sayaka 每天晚上都會打電話給母親，聊聊這一天發生的事。
- only daughter
- eldest / oldest daughter
- youngest daughter
- baby daughter
- adopted daughter
- daughter-in-law
- son
the male counterpart in the parent–child relationship
用法筆記
Daughter is the female counterpart of 'son'. Unlike 'girl', which refers to any female child by age, 'daughter' always implies the parent–child relationship. The word can be used for children by birth or by adoption.
常見錯誤
used to say that a daughter behaves or thinks in a similar way to her mother, often in a way that is typical of their family.
有其母必有其女
When Beatrix started knitting scarves for the whole family, her grandmother laughed and said, "Like mother, like daughter."
daughter of the soil
idioma woman who was born in and has strong ties to a particular rural area or country.
鄉土女兒
The Senator introduced herself as a daughter of the soil who had never forgotten her farming roots.
daughter — 形容詞
- daughterpositive
- daughterercomparative
- daughterestsuperlative
1. having the role, qualities, or connection of a daughter in a family — for exampl
女兒的
具有女兒屬性或有母女關係的
having the role, qualities, or connection of a daughter in a family — for example, showing care toward parents or being a smaller related part of a larger organization.
Paloma took on a daughter's duties when her mother broke her leg last winter.
Paloma 去年冬天母親摔斷腿後，擔起了女兒的責任。
attributive: daughter's duties / daughter role
The small gallery operates as a daughter company of the national museum.
這間小型美術館是國家博物館的女兒公司。
collocation: daughter company
French and Italian are daughter languages that grew out of Latin.
法語和義大利語是從拉丁語衍生出來的女兒語言。
collocation: daughter language
Megan showed a daughter's concern by visiting her father in hospital every day.
Megan 每天去醫院探望父親，展現了女兒的關懷。
- daughter company
- daughter language
- daughter ship
- parent
when referring to the originating company, language, or cell nucleus
用法筆記
This sense is most often used attributively in fixed compound nouns such as 'daughter company', 'daughter language', or 'daughter ship'. It does not typically appear in predicate position (e.g. ❌ 'The company is daughter').
2. relating to cells, cell organelles, or molecules formed directly by the division
子代的
細胞分裂或複製後產生的
relating to cells, cell organelles, or molecules formed directly by the division, replication, or splitting of a parent structure.
Each daughter cell receives a complete copy of the parent cell's DNA.
每個子細胞都會獲得母細胞 DNA 的完整副本。
collocation: daughter cell
During mitosis the original cell divides into two identical daughter cells.
在有絲分裂期間，原細胞會分裂成兩個完全相同的子細胞。
The parent molecule splits apart to form two daughter molecules with the same sequence.
母分子會分裂成兩個序列相同的子分子。
collocation: daughter molecule
Scientists observed how the daughter organelles began functioning right after the cell split.
科學家觀察到子胞器在細胞分裂後立即開始運作。
- daughter cell
- daughter molecule
- daughter organelle
- daughter chromosome
- daughter nucleus
- parent
the original structure before division or replication
用法筆記
Technical term used primarily in cell biology and molecular genetics. Outside scientific writing, this sense will sound unnatural. For everyday contexts use the noun sense or adjective sense 1 instead.
同根字
- daughterly形容詞C1
- daughter-in-law名詞B1
- stepdaughter名詞B1
- granddaughter名詞A2