一、词性和词义
1. paternity是一个名词，表示父亲身份或父亲的身份、性质或特征。常用于构成复合词如paternity test（亲子鉴定），paternity leave（父亲产假）等。
2. 缩写词pat.是paternal（父亲的）的缩写，常用于识别父亲的文书材料中，如出生证明、婚姻证书等。
3. 另外，paternity还有“父系亲属关系”的意思。
二、用法和搭配
1. paternity test：亲子鉴定
2. paternity leave：父亲产假
3. paternity suit：父亲认亲诉讼
4. paternity fraud：伪造父亲身份
5. paternity rights：父亲权利
三、例句
1. I have no doubt of his paternity.
我毫不怀疑他的父亲身份。
2. After the paternity test, he found out that he was not the biological father of the child.
通过亲子鉴定，他发现他不是这个孩子的亲生父亲。
3. The company offers six weeks of paternity leave for new fathers.
这家公司为新父亲提供六周的产假。
4. He filed a paternity suit to establish his biological fatherhood.
他提出了认亲诉讼，以确定他的生物父亲身份。
5. The man was accused of paternity fraud for claiming to be the biological father of the child.
这个男人因声称自己是孩子的生物父亲而被指控伪造父亲身份。
中文翻译：父权；父权制度；父亲的身份
读音：[p?’t?rn?ti]
例句：
1. He doubted the paternity of the child and demanded a DNA test.（他怀疑孩子的父亲身份，要求进行 DNA 检测。）
2. In some cultures, paternity is given more importance than maternity.（在某些文化中，父权比母权更重要。）
3. The law acknowledges the father’s paternity once his name is on the birth certificate.（法律认可父亲在出生证明上的身份。）
paternity的中文解释是”父子关系、来源”，其次还有”父系血统”的意思，在线发音：[p?’t?:niti]，paternity来源于英语，在《牛津英汉双解词典》中，共找到83个与paternity相关的句子。
1.父子关系
例句:Leike’s dad back in Nigeria denies paternity and won’t accept custody of her. (Leike的爸爸回了尼日利亚 并拒绝承认父女关系 而且不愿收留她)
2.来源
例句:I mean, we can take a paternity test if you want. (如果你愿意的话 我们可以做亲子鉴定 I mean, we can take a paternity test if you want.)
3.父系血统
例句:He was tricked into marriage by a false accusation of paternity. (他被诬赖成孩子的父亲而被骗着成了婚。)
4.父亲身份 、父系血统
例句:PAULA: This is his fifth paternity test. What are we talking about? (翻译:这是他第五次生父鉴定了 我们到底在谈什么?)
paternity一般作为名词使用，如在paternity case([网络] 父亲血缘案例)、paternity exclusion([医]排除父子关系)、paternity identification([特医] 亲权鉴定)等常见短语中出现较多。
paternity case[网络] 父亲血缘案例paternity exclusion[医]排除父子关系paternity identification[特医] 亲权鉴定paternity leave（丈夫为陪伴待分娩的妻子而获取的）陪产假paternity leaves陪产假paternity pay[网络] 亲子鉴定paternity reaction[医] 亲权反应paternity right作品署名权paternity suit[法] 确认生父的诉讼1. He was tricked into marriage by a false accusation of paternity. (翻译:他被诬赖成孩子的父亲而被骗着成了婚。)
2. PAULA: This is his fifth paternity test. What are we talking about? (翻译:这是他第五次生父鉴定了 我们到底在谈什么?)
3. They seem to have subverted a male trick that is intended to ensure paternity rights, and turned it into a trap. (翻译:它们似乎颠覆了雄蜘蛛想要维护父权的诡计，将之转变成一个陷阱。)
4. Soon after Landsteiner and his collaborator, Philip Levine, published the work in 1927, the types began to be used in paternity suits. (翻译:不久之后，兰德斯塔纳和他的同事PhilipLevine在xx年发表了这项研究成果，这种血型开始应用在生父确认诉讼程序中。)
5. Just forget the paternity thing. (翻译:就忘了亲子鉴定那事儿吧 Just forget the paternity thing.)
6. On the other side of the planet, in the Amazon, we’ve got many tribes which practice what anthropologists call partible paternity. (翻译:在地球的另外一面，在亚马逊 有很多部落实行着人类学家所说的 父系分享制。)
7. The “Prenatal paternity testing” is a fly against the wind, has deviated from the paternity of the scientific and progressive. (翻译:而“产前亲子鉴定”是逆风飞扬，已经背离亲子鉴定的科学性和进步性。)
8. Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him. (翻译:希刺克厉夫又微笑了，好像把那个粗人算作他的儿子，简直是把玩笑开得太莽撞了。)
9. The truth is, the Rabbi’s in over his head with gamblers, and he has also been named in a paternity case by a Mrs. Hecht. (翻译:事实上，拉比当时正被几个赌徒搞得焦头烂额，并在一位海彻特太太提出的确认父子关系的官司中当了被告。)
10. He’s so committed to equality that when he took on as CEO and he said gender balance matters, he created a gender-balanced executive team and gave men and women equal maternity and paternity leave. (翻译:他也致力于平等， 当他担任首席执行官时， 他就说性别平衡很重要， 他创造了一个性别平衡的领导团队， 并给予男性与女性平等的产假。)
11. False paternity’s more like 10%. That’s what our moms would like us to believe. (翻译:错位的父子关系差不多是10% 那是我们的母亲希望我们相信的)
12. They want a paternity test to see if it’s mine. (翻译:他们要求做一个亲子鉴定来 证实看这个孩子到底是不是我的)
13. He would like her to have an amniocentesis as soon as possible… so that paternity can be positively established. (翻译:他想要她尽快做个羊水诊断… 就能知道是不是有亲子关系了)
14. Do I represent you in a paternity suit, Coleman? (翻译:到时我是不是还要代理你的生父确认诉讼呢 Coleman?)
15. The old man talked but little, and, at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. (翻译:老人不大开口，不时转过眼睛，满一种说不出的父爱望着她。)
paternity作为名词的时候，其近义词以及反义词有s、paternities等。
