tiger mother
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A woman who is fiercely protective of one or more people in her care.
— […] I spent all last night on my knees, beseeching the Great Physician to hear me and heal my boy. […] but the instinct of the tiger-mother is tearing my heart to pieces […].
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A mother who drives her child or children very hard to succeed in school or in extracurricular studies, such as learning a musical instrument.
— I would like to see Oxford and Cambridge turned into graduate universities entirely devoted to research, which at a stroke would cool the ardour of the "tiger mothers" of Holland Park and Hampstead determined to set their three-year-olds on the path to Oxbridge, whatever the human cost.
词源
The sense of the ambitious mother was popularized by the parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) by Amy Chua.
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