1. 出生，诞生，降生，出世，临产
2. 分娩，生产
3. 出身；血统；家世；门第；家系
4. 起源，开始，产生，发生
5. 产物；产儿

1. 生，分娩
2. 产生
3. 生产，生子

1. [U]出生,分娩,生育 emergence of young from the mother's body; being born or bearing young
2. [C]起源 coming into existence; beginning
3. [U]门第,出身 family origin; descent

1. the time when something begins (especially life);

   "they divorced after the birth of the child"
   "his election signaled the birth of a new age"
   

2. the event of being born;

   "they celebrated the birth of their first child"
   

3. the process of giving birth

4. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

5. a baby born; an offspring;

   "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"
   

1. cause to be born;

   "My wife had twins yesterday!"
   

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

e.g. It was thebirth of his grandchildren which gave him greatest pleasure...
孙子孙女的出生给他带来了极大的快乐。
e.g. She concealed her pregnancy right up to the moment ofbirth...
她隐瞒了自己怀孕的事，直到孩子出世。

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

birth

e.g. ...thebirth of popular democracy.
人民民主的诞生

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

e.g. ...men of lowbirth...
出身卑微的人
e.g. Hisbirth, background and career show that you can make it in this country on merit alone.
他的出身、背景和职业表明，在这个国家仅凭自己的能力就可以取得成功。

4. see also: date of birth;home birth

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

e.g. Sadrudin was an Iranian bybirth.
萨德尔丁是伊朗血统。

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

e.g. She's just givenbirth to a baby girl...
她刚生了一个女孩。
e.g. She's due to givebirth at any moment.
她随时可能分娩。

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

e.g. In 1980, strikes at the Lenin Shipyards gavebirth to the Solidarity trade union.
1980年，列宁造船厂的罢工致使团结工会得以成立。

8.出生的（地方）
The country, town, or villageof yourbirth is the place where you were born.

birth什么意思

1. 重生：随着9月9日多伦多电影节的开幕,一大帮好莱坞大明星马不停蹄地从欧洲直奔北美洲,但也有人并没有离开欧洲的城市,<>(birth)女星妮可-基德曼(Nicole Kidman)在威尼斯完成宣传任务并遭到同事劳伦-巴考尔(Lauren Bacall)一顿抢白后的当日,

2.

2. 生产：一份由阳明大学周颖政教授及健保局李丞华合作发表在生产(birth)国际期刊的研究报告指出,经过年龄、族群、生产史、妊娠危险因子、及其他各种因素调整后,女医师或是医师的女性家属的剖腹产率明显低於同属於高社经地位的其他妇女,

1. He has been dumb from birth.
   他生来就是哑巴。
2. The father was present at the birth.
   婴儿出世时,其父亲在场。
3. The baby weighed seven pounds at birth.
   婴儿出生时重7磅。
4. The child's birth occurred at 2 p.m..
   这孩子是下午2时出生的。
5. It was in Asia that the world's greatest cultures had their birth.
   世界上最伟大的文化都起源于亚洲。
6. She is English by birth but French by marriage.
   她是英国血统,但嫁给了法国人而加入了法国国籍。
7. He valued birth above accomplishments.
   他把出身看得重于才能。

give birth to

生,引起,产生 bear; cause

• The birth of an heir by his beloved sister.

  出自：Henry Fielding

• Mine by right, from birth till death.

  出自：Tennyson

1. birth的基本意思是“出生,分娩,生育”,指一个新生命的诞生。引申可指一件事情的最初形成,即“起源”,或指一个人的背景及家庭状况,即“门第,出身”。
2. birth多用作不可数名词,偶尔也可用作可数名词。
3. birth的复数形式为births,指两个或两个以上孩子的诞生。
4. birth后可接of短语表示“出身于…”， birth前不可加定冠词。

那天晚上报告说有三个婴儿诞生了。

误 The births of three boys were reported that night.

误 Three boys' births were reported that night.

正 Three births were reported that night.

析 birth的复数births可以表示两个或两个以上的孩子出生,但用在介词of前面或用在名词所有格的后面时则用单数形式。

• ☆ 13世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古英语的beran，意为分娩。