中國人最易誤解的話第21期:八月的令尊

Your august father is my friend.
（誤譯）你父親八月份成爲我的朋友。
（正譯）令尊是我的朋友。

august
adj. 威嚴的；令人敬畏的
n. 八月（簡寫爲Aug）

1. father n. 父親，爸爸；神父；祖先；前輩
vt. 發明，創立；當…的父親

I see you are a proud father.
我看得出來你是一個自豪的父親。

The grieving father helps to solve the mystery.
悲痛中的父親幫助解決了謎團。

2. old man 情人；丈夫；老頭子；父親

After the old man died, his children found that his will was invalid.
這位老人死後，他的子女們才發現他的遺囑是作廢的。

The old man cherished the girl as if she were his daughter.
老人很疼愛那女孩子，就像親生女兒一樣。

3. male parent [農學] 父本；父親

In the Great Lakes area, mother gulls are sharing nests and raising eggs together because their male partners hae forgotten how to parent.
在北美五大湖區，雌海鷗正共同分享巢穴和下蛋因爲它們的伴侶忘記了如何撫養。

Chinese chive used as male parent showed some incompatibility when crooned to onion and Japanese bunching onion, which required longer time for pollen tube to penetrate entire style.
韮菜爲雄親與蔥及洋蔥雜交有不親和現象，花粉管雖能伸入，但生長速緩慢。

4. pater n. 父親

Highest grade was of Pater (father) under Saturn.
最高級別就是土星之下的佩特（父親）級別。

He wrote and told the pater I was an immoral young dog and corrupting his house.
他寫信給我父親，說我是隻墮落的小狗，敗壞了他的門風。