Maternal

(adj.) characteristic of a mother; 'warm maternal affection for her guest'- Dorothy Sayers .

(adj.) relating to or derived from one's mother; 'maternal genes' .

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• The broken-spirited, old, maternal grandfather was likewise subject to the little tyrant. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• So the maternal admonition seemed rather to fail of effect. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Idris stood at a window that over-looked the park; her maternal eyes sought her own children among the young crowd. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They were not thin hands, or small hands; but powerful, feminine, maternal hands. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mrs. March laughed, and smoothed down her maternal pride as she asked, Well, my swan, what is your plan? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It does my heart good to see them forget business and frolic for a day, answered Jo, who now spoke in a maternal way of all mankind. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Miss Ophelia had several times tried to awaken her maternal fears about Eva; but to no avail. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The real solicitude now awakened in the maternal bosom was not soon over. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I leave her to describe the circumstances (if she has not done so already) under which she introduced me to the object of her maternal care. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You should do just what your grandfather wishes, my dear boy, said Meg in her most maternal tone. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Good mothers are married over again at their daughters' weddings: and as for subsequent events, who does not know how ultra-maternal grandmothers are? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• All through the stress of the struggle with him, she had been conscious of something faintly maternal in her efforts to guide and uplift him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• This was Mrs Plornish, and this maternal action was the action of Mrs Plornish during a large part of her waking existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I didn't know what it was to be a mother; unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me, and so on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• That's exactly what Ma has been doing,' interposed Lavvy, over the maternal shoulder, 'ever since we got up this morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Often with maternal affection she had figured their merits and talents exerted on life's wide stage. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her existence was a maternal caress. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Maternal feeling now awoke in my poor girl's bosom, and she asked: And Alfred? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The word 'Mother' suggested other maternal counsels given long ago, and received with unbelieving protests. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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