| 词组 | born and bred |
| 释义 | Idiom born and raised and born and bred Theme: CHILDHOOD born and nurtured through childhood, usually in a specific place. (Fixed order.)She was born and raised in a small town in western Montana.Freddy was born and bred on a farm and had no love for city life. Idiom born and bred if you were born and bred in a place, you were born and grew up in that place and have the typical character of someone who lives there.She was born and bred in Jamaica but now lives in France. (often + in)He's a Londoner born and bred. born and bredBorn and raised in a particular place, which has shaped one's personality. As you could probably tell by his aggressive driving, he's a New Yorker, born and bred. born and bredBorn and educated in a single locale or social class. For example, Adam was a Bostonian, born and bred. Although the two words were paired earlier, the precise locution dates from the mid-1800s. born and bredby birth and upbringing. 1991 Sharon Kay Penman The Reckoning I was being tended by a most unlikely nurse, an Irish sprite who spoke French as if she was Paris born and bred. ˌborn and ˈbredborn and brought up (in a place): He’s Liverpool born and bred.Both my parents were born and bred in London.born and bredDescribing a native, a person born and raised in the same place. The alliterative appeal of this phrase no doubt led to its overuse. Joseph Addison paired the two early on (The Spectator, 1711): “Being bred to no business and born to no estate.” The precise locution appears in Fanny Kemble’s travel book (1863), “Born and bred in America.” |
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