“If you don’t graduate from college, you won’t get a good job,”“ I responded with a tinge of panic and motherly concern. ”“And if you don’t have a good job, how do you plan to get rich?”

“如果你不能从大学毕业,就得不到好工作,”我带着一丝惊慌和母亲的关爱说,“如果你得不到好的工作,又怎么发财呢?”

A motherly old teacher

慈祥的老教师

motherly woman

慈祥的女人.

She surveyed them with pleased motherly interest, which Cowperwood considered did her much credit

她带着愉快的慈母的心情观看他们，柯帕乌认为这给她大大增光。

Towards Fred Vincy she had a motherly feeling, and had always been disposed to excuse his errors

她对弗莱德?文西有一种母性的感情，对他的过失始终采取宽容态度。

She has a motherly affection for her pupils.

她对学生怀有母亲般的慈爱。

She was an ample, motherly woman, sweet-looking

她是一个富态的慈母一般的人，样子格外和蔼可亲。

Her motherly kindness attaches us all to her.

她像母亲一般仁慈,我们大家都很依恋她。

not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.

她这么做与其说是出于母爱的激情,不如说可以借此掩盖钉在她衣裙上的标记。

On Four Women Authors’ Motherly Love in Beijing Senior Normal University for Girls

论北京女高师四位女作家的母爱歌颂

At last the door opened and the motherly-looking sister appeared. She only looked an order. Slowly the line moved up and, one by one, passed in, until twenty-five were counted.

门终于打开了,出来了那位慈眉善目的修女。她只是用眼色来示意。队伍慢慢地向前移动,一个接着一个地走了进去,直到数到了二十五个。

Mrs. Moss was bland and motherly as always

莫斯太太还是和蔼可亲，总象个慈母一样。

motherly

母亲的，慈爱的.

motherly authority (care， affection)

母权(母亲的照顾，母爱).

The matron looked a comfortable,motherly soul but she soon showed her teeth if any of the inmates gave signs of having minds of their own.

那个女看守看上去内心平静，待人像慈母一般，但是只要被收容者有迹象自作主张，她可就不那么客气了。

Natalie, silent, regarded them both with a satirical motherly look

娜塔丽默默地用讽刺，但是慈祥的目光望着他们两人。

He lowered his head and rolled his eyes. My words of motherly wisdom were falling on deaf ears once again.

他低下头转转眼睛,显然,我那母亲式的智慧之词又一次在装聋的耳朵面前失败了。

I left my belongings with this grand-motherly figure and entered into this magnificent hall of learning.

我把我的东西留给那祖母般的工作人员，进入了那宏大的学习之厅。

A big, motherly looking woman invariably stood guard at the door during the entire operation and counted the admissible number. The men moved up in solemn order.

在整个布施期间,一个身材高大、慈眉善目的女人总是守在门口,清点可以进去的人数。这些人秩序井然地向前移动。

This moved my good motherly nurse, so that she from that time resolved I should not go to service yet

这些话感动了我那位慈母般的阿妈，她那时就决定还不让我出去服役。

||1:Although she sets out to present a motherly public persona, Ms Kopacz occasionally displays flashes of Thatcherite steel.||2:When she was health minister in 2009, she refused to be browbeaten into mandating an untested swine-flu vaccine, despite fears of a global epidemic.||3:After the crash of a government plane in 2010 in Russia, which killed 96 people, including Poland’s president, Ms Kopacz went to Moscow to take part in the stomach-churning work of identifying the dead.

||1:即使她展现出一种慈母般的公众形象，科帕奇偶尔会展示出撒切尔光环一般的闪光点。||2:当她在2009年担任卫生部大臣的时候，尽管当时是全球恐慌状态，她也拒绝被迫批准未经检疫的流感疫苗。||3:2010年政府飞机在俄罗斯坠毁，包括当时的波兰总统在内共有96人丧生，科帕奇前往莫斯科去参加那令人反胃的辨认尸体工作。

At the time it had an almost identical meaning to the one I used in describing my wife’s motherly duties.

当时，它的词义几乎与我刚才描述妻子作为母亲的职责相同。

For Seymour, the saga of motherly love was anything but.

对于西摩来说，这是一个讲述母爱的传奇故事。

PK: The Another Pattern of Motherly Love in the Great Works of Literature

较量：文学经典中的另类母爱表达

Oh, I had done the normal “motherly ” things, like making sure my daughter got to ballet and tap and gym lessons.

没错，我做了一个普通妈妈该做的所有事，像送孩子去学芭蕾舞，钢琴和体操。

You may be fretting about your changing body or you may be reveling in your new, motherly shape.

你可能会对自己改变的身体而忧愁，或者你会陶醉于自己新的母亲般的体形。

It is at once childish, feminine and motherly .

它同时汇聚了柔美、孩子气和慈母般的滋味。

I’m a father who makes bumbling attempts at motherly things.

我是一个在笨拙地尝试一个母亲角色的父亲。

With the motherly love and persistence, the mother succeeded in turning the problem boy into a straight man.

以母亲的慈爱和执着，他妈妈终于把一个顽童培养成了一个正直的男子汉。

motherly affection

母爱