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/ˈstepfɑːðər/ · /ˈstepfɑːðə/
the man who is married to your mother but who is not your own father. He often lives with you and helps look after you like a parent.
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複數 stepfathers
核心畫面
A man who joins your family by marrying your mother. He often lives with you and does the things a father does, but he is not the father you were born to. The step- prefix marks family created by marriage rather than by birth.
家裡多了一個大人。他跟你媽媽結了婚，住進這個家，早上會叫你起床、會載你去上學、可能還會管你功課——他做著爸爸在做的那…更多收起
家裡多了一個大人。他跟你媽媽結了婚，住進這個家，早上會叫你起床、會載你去上學、可能還會管你功課——他做著爸爸在做的那些事，但他不是生你的那個爸爸。step- 這個前綴標的就是這種關係：透過婚姻連上的家人，而不是透過血緣。這個字本身是中性的描述，不帶好壞判斷；童話故事給 step- 家人的壞名聲，是故事的事，不是這個字的意思。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
stepfathernoun
- 1
The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
- My stepfather loved me as much as he loved his own three sons. I knew how much he wanted to help me and how lacking in financial resources he was. Nothing could erase the image I gained of my real father that day: a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son.
- 2
The husband of one's parent distinct from one's biological father or person with a similar relationship.
- In suboptimal cases the gynaecologist takes sperm from anonymous donors. In this case the husband can only be stepfather of the child.
- Telegony or Inheritance from the Stepfather The earliest reference to telegony ( which has no connection with the son of Odysseus ) is supposed to be in 1665 but the classical case is that described in the Philosophical Transactions of[…]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。