give birthとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

give birth (三人称単数 現在形 gives birth, 現在分詞 giving birth, 過去形 gave birth, 過去分詞 given birth)

1. (intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.

   It was clear that she was about to give birth.

2. (intransitive, with to, of viviparous animals) To become the parent of by birthing.

   She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.

   • 1988, Honig, Emily; Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's‎^[1], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 87-18013, OCLC 716396340, page 219:

     The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.

   • 2022 June 1, Collier Jennings, “'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3”, in The Collider‎^[2]:

     The rest of the Orville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when he gave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.

3. (intransitive, figuratively, usually with to, idiomatic) To become the source of.

   Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.

使用する際の注意点

• To "give birth" refers to either the moment of childbirth as a point in time or to the period of labor preceding childbirth.

関連する語

• bear
• birth
• born