birth /bɜːθ/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-VAR When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth. 出生

  例：

  It was the birth of his grandchildren that gave him greatest pleasure.

  是孙儿孙女们的降生给了他最大的欢乐。

  例：

  She weighed 5lb 7oz at birth.

  她出生时重5磅7盎司。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT You can refer to the beginning or origin of something as its birth. 开始; 起源

  例：

  ...the birth of popular democracy.

  …人民民主的开始

• 3. 

  N-UNCOUNT Some people talk about a person's birth when they are referring to the social position of the person's family. 出身

  例：

  ...men of low birth.

  …出身低微的男人们。

• 4. 

  → see also date of birth

• 5. 

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

  例：

  Sadrudin was an Iranian by birth.

  萨德鲁丁在血统上是伊朗人。

• 6. 

  PHRASE When a woman gives birth, she produces a baby from her body. 分娩

  例：

  She's just given birth to a baby girl.

  她刚刚生下一个女婴。

• 7. 

  PHRASE To give birth to something such as an idea means to cause it to start to exist. 使产生

  例：

  In 1980, strikes at the Lenin shipyards gave birth to the Solidarity trade union.

  1980年，列宁造船厂的罢工导致团结工会的建立。

• 8. 

  PHRASE The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born. 出生地

  例：

  He left the town of his birth five years later for Australia.

  他5年后离开故乡去了澳大利亚。