grandfather
['grænd.fɑ:ðə]
n. (外)祖父
例句与用法：
When their grandfather died a great sadness filled their lives.
当他们的祖父去世时，巨大的悲伤笼罩了他们的生活。
His grandfather is nearly seventy.
他爷爷快七十岁了。
Although his grandfather was a nobleman, he was very poor.
尽管他的祖父是贵族，他却非常穷困。
His grandfather gave her an earthenware bowl.
他的祖父给了她一个陶碗。
A parent of one's mother or father; a grandmother or grandfather.
祖父母，外祖父母某人母亲或父亲的父母; 祖母、外祖母或祖父、外祖父
Grandfather was in the trenches during the First War.
在第一次世界大战中，我祖父驻守在法国北部前线。
My maternal grandfather is coming.
我的外祖父要来了。
His grandfather passed away last year.
他的祖父去年去世了。
词形变化：
动词过去式: grandfathered |
动词过去分词: grandfathered |
动词现在分词: grandfathering |
动词第三人称单数: grandfathers |
n.[C]
1. 祖父; 外祖父
My grandfather arrived in New York after the Civil War.
我祖父在南北战争之后来到纽约。
2. 老祖宗
The church supper is the grandfather of the country club.
教堂的晚餐聚会是乡间俱乐部的前身。
3. 老先生, 老大爷; 老年人
4. 老爷钟(落地式大时钟)
5. 【美】【俚】高年级学生
vt.
不受新条例, 新规定限制
The city passed an ordinance restricting the size of advertising signs, but grandfathered all those signs erected before 1992.
该城市通过了限制广告招牌大小的条例, 但是一九九二年以前竖立的招牌不在此限。
grandfather
■Once in her grandfather's room, she would be safe.
一到她外祖父的房间,她就平安了。
■Adam was my grandfather and I take after him.
亚当是我的祖父,我和他很相像。
■Adam was my grandfather and I took after him.
亚当是我的祖父,我和他很谢谢。
■Grandfather's weather eye always tell him when it will rain.
什么时候下雨，爷爷那双善观气象的眼睛一看就知道。
■He dared his grandfather's displeasure when he left the family business.
他不顾祖父的不悦，放下了家族的生意。
■He inherit 10,000 from his grandfather.
他从祖父那里继承了10，000英镑。
■He was named James for his grandfather.
他以祖父的名字被命名为詹姆斯。
■They could not hammer any new idea into their grandfather's head.
他们无法向祖父灌输任何新思想。
■They dedicated the library to their grandfather's memory.
他们用这座图书馆来纪念他们的祖父。
■His grandfather is a three-bottle man.
他外公是个大酒徒。
■The grandfather on his mother's side is still living.
他外祖父还健在。
■He liked to go with his grandfather to the stoneyard.
他愿意同爷爷一起到石场去。
■He was called Richard after his grandfather.
他沿用祖父的名字，被命名为理查。
■His grandfather died in the Second World War.
他爷爷在二战期间阵亡了。
■His grandfather has been dead for two years.
他爷爷已经死了两年了。
■His grandfather has been ill for a long time.
他爷爷已经病了好久了。
■His grandfather is nearly seventy.
他爷爷快七十岁了。
■His grandfather has been dead a long time.
他爷爷早就不在了。
■His grandfather died the year before last.
他爷爷是前年去世的。
■His second name is Willem, after his grandfather.
他的中间名是威廉，取自他祖父的名字。
■His grandfather was one of the pioneers of flying.
他的外祖父是飞行的先驱者之一。
■His Austrian grandfather was an opera singer who abruptly upped and left his wife in Vienna.
他的奥地利祖父是位歌剧演员，这位演员突然出人意料地离开了他撇在维也纳的妻子。
■His great grandfather was a simple courtier then.
他的曾祖父那时是个小朝臣。
■His grandfather is a devout Buddhist.
他的爷爷是一个虔诚的佛教徒。
■His grandfather was known as a brave seaman.
他的爷爷是一名勇敢的水手。
■His grandfather is the watchman of the factory.
他的爷爷是这个工厂的守夜人。
■His grandfather is ninety years old.
他的祖父九十岁了。
■His grandfather was a bear-hunter in the old days.
他的祖父从前是个猎熊的人。
■His grandfather used to be a feudal lord.
他的祖父原来是个封建主。
■His grandfather is gone now.
他的祖父去世了。
■His grandfather has been dead for five years.
他的祖父去世已经有五年了。
■His grandfather passed away last year.
他的祖父去年去世了。
■His grandfather is always carping about the young.
他的祖父总是指摘青年人不懂事。
■His grandfather left the patrimony to him.
他的祖父把祖传的财物留给了他.
■His grandfather is a geographer.
他的祖父是一位地理学家。
■His grandfather was a veteran of the World War II.
他的祖父是二战时的老兵。
■His grandfather was a court painter.
他的祖父是位宫廷画家。
■His grandfather was a fine raconteur, dredging up quite effortlessly, and with a great wealth of detail, scenes and incidents from his early life.
他的祖父是位很会讲故事的人,不费吹灰之力,就把他年轻时事情、场景,极详细地描绘出来。
■His grandfather was a royal duke.
他的祖父是王室公爵。
■His grandfather used to be a land lord.
他的祖父曾经是个地主。
■His grandfather lived to a hundred.
他的祖父活到了100岁。
■His grandfather gave her an earthenware bowl.
他的祖父给了她一个陶碗。
■His grandfather founded the business in 1 9 0 9 .
他祖父于1909年创办了这家商行。
■His grandfather died at an advanced age of 98.
他祖父在九十八岁高龄时去世。
■His grandfather is in Abraham's bosom.
他祖父安息了.
■His grandfather owns all this land.
他祖父拥有这整块土地。
■His grandfather must now be getting on for eighty.
他祖父现在一定快八十岁了。
■You derive your temper from your grandfather.
你的脾气传自你祖父
■The doctor said it was all up with his grandfather.
医生说，他祖父已没有希望了。
■Your Grandfather, Stuart Symington, Jr.
史托尔·西敏顿。