surrogate
Ysurrog/i/t
D–noun 1. a person appointed to act for another;
deputy.
2. (in some states) a judicial officer having jurisdiction over the
probate (遺囑認證) of wills, the administration of estates, etc.
3. the deputy of an
ecclesiastical judge, esp. of a bishop or a bishop's
chancellor.【英】大臣;大法官
4. a
substitute.
5.
a surrogate [mother].
–adjective 6. regarded or acting as a surrogate:
a surrogate [father]. 7. involving or indicating the use of a surrogate mother to conceive or
carry an embryo:
surrogate [parenting].
–verb (used with object)
8. to put into the place of another as a successor, substitute, or deputy; substitute for another.
9. to
subrogate.【律】(擔保人代償債務後) 取代 (債權人)
see
ecclesiastes sham
All of Paul Thomas Anderson's films have been about family. Hard Eight is about a man creating a
surrogate family out of the guilt he felt for messing up his original one; Boogie Nights is about a lost little boy attempting to find someone to nurture him; Magnolia is nothing else if not a
cornucopia of stories about the need to make peace with parents; and Punch-Drunk Love is about the efforts of a man stunted by his domineering family to escape their influence.
see
cornucopia relegate