及物动词

名词

1. 出生；降生；出世
When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth .

2. 诞生；产生；出现；起源
You can refer to the beginning or origin of something as its birth .

3. 出身；家世；门第
Some people talk about a person's birth when they are referring to the social position of the person's family.

4. see also: date of birth;home birth

5. 在血统上；生来
If, for example, you are French by birth, you are French because your parents are French, or because you were born in France.

6. 生（孩子）；分娩；生育
When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body.

7. 使产生；使诞生
To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist.

8. 出生的（地方）
The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.

1. the event of being born

e.g. they celebrated the birth of their first child

Synonym: nativitynascencynascence

2. a baby born
an offspring

e.g. the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births

3. the process of giving birth

Synonym: parturitiongiving birthbirthing

4. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

Synonym: parentage

5. the time when something begins (especially life)

e.g. they divorced after the birth of the child
his election signaled the birth of a new age