| 单词 | surrogate |
| 释义 | sur·ro·gate1 /ˈsʌrəɡeɪt, -ɡət $ ˈsɜːr-/ adjective [only before noun] REPLACEa surrogate person or thing is one that takes the place of someone or something else 替代的，代理的 William was acting as a surrogate father for his brother’s son. 威廉替代兄弟为他的儿子担当起父亲的职责。Examples from the Corpussurrogate• His dancers were his family, surrogate children whom he fed, educated and drove mercilessly as artists.• Both his sense of need and his surrogate conscience link him however tenuously, with a social universe.• They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father.• The old couple across the street were like surrogate grandparents to me.• We became a surrogate mirror reflecting back our approval.• Regional governments have started to issue their own kinds of surrogate money.• Girls are fascinated by people and treat their toys as surrogate people.surrogate father• Joseph Schreider was a kind of ... surrogate father.• They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father.• His surrogate father figure was killed.surrogate2 noun [countable] 1 a person or thing that takes the place of someone or something else 替代品surrogate for Bright-light therapy is used as a surrogate for sunshine. 强光疗法用于替代太阳光。2. a surrogate mother 代孕母亲Examples from the Corpussurrogate• Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate.• As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.• Civilization itself, in fact, is a pathological surrogate for unconscious infantile disappointments.• The President's surrogates have been campaigning for him nonstop.• This special class acted as their surrogates for over 400 years.• But I have to resist trying to make them surrogates of me.• Then, one night when his white surrogate left the studio, Winslow read part of his own Script on the air.Origin surrogate2 (1500-1600) Latin past participle of surrogare “to ask in place of another”, from sub- ( → SUB-) + rogare “to ask”sur·ro·gate1 adjectivesurrogate2 nounChineseSyllable one or Corpus person is takes that surrogate thing a |
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