单词	surrogate
释义	surrogate1 adjectivesurrogate2 noun surrogatesur‧ro‧gate1 /ˈsʌrəɡeɪt, -ɡət $ ˈsɜːr-/ adjective [only before noun] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The old couple across the street were like surrogate grandparents to me. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Both his sense of need and his surrogate conscience link him however tenuously, with a social universe. Girls are fascinated by people and treat their toys as surrogate people. His dancers were his family, surrogate children whom he fed, educated and drove mercilessly as artists. Regional governments have started to issue their own kinds of surrogate money. They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father. We became a surrogate mirror reflecting back our approval. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► surrogate father  William was acting as a surrogate father for his brother’s son. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► father · His surrogate father figure was killed.· They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father. a surrogate person or thing is one that takes the place of someone or something else:  William was acting as a surrogate father for his brother’s son. surrogate1 adjectivesurrogate2 noun surrogatesurrogate2 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINsurrogate2 Origin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of surrogare ‘to ask in place of another’, from sub- ( ➔ SUB-) + rogare ‘to ask’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The President's surrogates have been campaigning for him nonstop. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California. But I have to resist trying to make them surrogates of me. Civilization itself, in fact, is a pathological surrogate for unconscious infantile disappointments. Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate. Then, one night when his white surrogate left the studio, Winslow read part of his own Script on the air. This special class acted as their surrogates for over 400 years. 1a person or thing that takes the place of someone or something elsesurrogate for Bright-light therapy is used as a surrogate for sunshine.2a surrogate mother
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