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/ˈstepmʌðər/ · /ˈstepmʌðə/
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.
繼母
複數 stepmothers
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 ste…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料5 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。
stepmothernoun/ˈstɛpmʌðə/
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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.
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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.
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Synonym of co-mother (“the non-birth mother of a child in a lesbian couple”).
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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：
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。