mothering, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday

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在倫敦求學的第一年，還記得是三月的一個週末，校園裡面變得特別冷清。一問之下，才知道當地的同學紛紛回家過「Mothering Sunday」了，也就是英國的母親節。後來我有機會到其他國家，例如印度尼西亞、以色列等，發現如果把世界各國不一樣的母親節排在日曆中，前後幾乎可以涵蓋一整年。

 Mothering Sunday

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Definition of Mothering Sunday in English:

noun

British

The fourth Sunday in Lent, traditionally a day for visiting or giving a present to one’s mother. Compare with Mother's Day.

Lent ：四旬期；（舊稱）嚴齋期；封齋期：自聖灰禮儀日起，至復活節前的四十天之齋戒期，為紀念耶穌受難，並準備耶穌復活節，也為望教友作領洗前的準備。

Ash Wednesday ：聖灰禮儀星期三；聖灰日：四旬（封齋）期的第一天，是日神父在教友額頭上塗以聖灰，並說：「人！你要記著，你原是土，將來仍要歸於土（創三 19 ）。」或說：「你要悔改，信從福音。」此日應守大、小齋表示痛悔己罪。

mothering

[名]((英)) 里帰り.

Mothering Sunday

[C][U]((英古風))母の日.

Mother's Day

NOUN

A day of the year on which mothers are particularly honoured by their children. In North America and South Africa it is the second Sunday in May; in Britain it has become another term for Mothering Sunday.

mother 

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Pronunciation: /ˈmʌðə/ 

NOUN

1A woman in relation to her child or children:she returned to Bristol to nurse her ageing mothera mother of three

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1.1A female animal in relation to its offspring:[AS MODIFIER]: a mother penguin

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1.2archaic (Especially as a form of address) an elderly woman.

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1.3[AS MODIFIER] Denoting an institution or organization from which others of the same type derive:the initiatives were based on the experience of the mother company

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1.4informal An extreme example or very large specimen of something:I got stuck in the mother of all traffic jams

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2(Mother, Mother Superior, or Reverend Mother)(Especially as a title or form of address) the head of a female religious community.

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3North American vulgar slang short for motherfucker.

VERB

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1(often as noun mothering) Bring up (a child) with care and affection:the art of mothering

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1.1Look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so:she mothered her husband, insisting he should take cod liver oil in the winter

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2dated Give birth to:her declining years had tricked her into believing she’d mothered another son of God

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Origin

Old English mōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeder and German Mutter, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin mater and Greek mētēr.

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