grandmother
['grænd.mʌðə]
n. (外)祖母
例句与用法:
He went to see his grandmother every now and then.
他时而去看看他的祖母。
Do not try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
The woman on the photo is my paternal grandmother.
照片上的这个妇人是我祖母。
My grandmother has a complex against foreigners.
我奶奶对外国人抱有偏见。
She was named after her grandmother.
她是根据她祖母的名字命名的。
It's very noble of you to look after my old grandmother when I was out for business.
你心地真好,在我出差期间照顾我年迈的外婆。
My grandmother got married at the age of seventeen.
我的祖母十七岁就结婚了。
I will go to visit my grandmother next week.
下星期我要去看我的外婆。
n.[C]
1. 祖母; 外祖母
Grandmother used to darn her own stockings.
祖母过去总是自己织补袜子。
2. 女祖先
3. 老太太, 可敬的老夫人
短语词组:
teach one's grandmother (how) to suck eggs
1. 班门弄斧
He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching his grandmother to suck eggs.
他老是对总裁说该如何管理业务, 就跟班门弄斧似的。
grandmother
■Grandmother is the oldest in my family .
37奶奶是我们家中最老的。
■One day her grandmother was ill and weak.
一天,祖母病了,身体非常虚弱。
■I will go to visit my grandmother next week.
下星期我要去看我的外婆。
■Do not teach your grandmother how to suck egg.
不可班门弄斧。
■Do not try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
■Let's go and visit with your grandmother this afternoon.
今天下午让我们去同你奶奶聊聊天。
■Never to have known my mother or my grandmother.
从不曾见过我的母亲与我的祖母。
■They began to slap each other over the grandmother.
他们就隔着祖母噼噼啪啪打了起来。
■He gave his grandmother a smack on the cheek.
他在祖母的脸上响响地吻了一下。
■His grandmother is eighty-two years old.
他奶奶八十二岁。
■His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.
他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
■As a child he thought that his grandmother's death had happened because he had willed it.
他小小年纪以为祖母死了是因为他曾经想过让她死。
■He received a bequest under his grandmother's will.
他得到他祖母遗嘱项下的遗赠。
■He went to see his grandmother every now and then.
他时而去看看他的祖母。
■He dreamt about his grandmother last night.
他昨天夜里梦见他的祖母了。
■He was brought up by his grandmother.
他是由他奶奶带大的。
■His grandmother fell in a dead faint.
他的祖母昏倒了。
■His grandmother is sleeping her last sleep.
他祖母去世了。
■He often runs errands for his grandmother.
他经常给他的祖母跑腿儿。
■He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching his grandmother how to suck eggs.
他老是对总裁说该如何管理业务,就跟班门弄斧似的。
■He attempted to visualize his grandmother's uncle.
他试着想像他祖母的叔叔的样子。
■But, grandmother, what great teeth you have!
但是,祖母,你的牙齿怎么这么大啊?
■You shouldn't talk back to your grandmother.
你不该跟你奶奶顶嘴。
■You put me in mind of your grandmother.
你使我想起你的祖母。
■The trip might be too much for your grandmother.
你奶奶可能经受不住这次旅途。
■It's very noble of you to look after my old grandmother when I was out for business.
你心地真好,在我出差期间照顾我年迈的外婆。
■And what great eyes you have, grandmother!
你的眼睛怎么这么大啊,祖母?
■And I believe you live with your grandmother.
你相信你是和你的祖母住在一起的.
■A: Your grandmother spoils you rotten.
你祖母把你给宠坏了。
■Your grandmother is the salt of the earth.
你祖母是非常正派的人。
■What age is your grandmother? She looks so young.
你祖母高寿啊?她看起来好年轻啊。
■If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
假如你想教育一个男人,先从他的祖母开始吧。
■It is the grandmother who makes the decision.
做决定的是奶奶。
■Karen abides with her grandmother.
凯伦和祖母同住。
■Well, this does beat my grandmother!
哎呀,这可真出我乎意料之外!
■Ah, a gift from a doting grandmother, of course.
啊,原来是溺爱孙女的祖母给的礼物。
■And for that reason his grandmother dotes on him.
因而乃祖母便先爱如珍宝.
■On the Christmas day in question, we could not go to Grandmother's house, as we do every year.
在我们所谈到的那个圣诞节,我们未能像每年一样到祖母家去。
■My grandmother wept the day we moved in.
在我们迁入新居的那天祖母流了泪。
■In the light, she saw her grandmother.
在这亮光中,她看见了自己的奶奶。
■I am leaving $5,000 by my grandmother in her will.
在遗嘱里我祖母遗留给我5,000美元。
■Move over and let your grandmother sit down.
坐过去点,让你外婆坐下来。
■Grandmother began to slowly open her eyes.
外婆开始慢慢地睁开眼睛了。
■My grandmother eats nothing but macrobiotic food.
奶奶只吃能健康长寿的食物。
■My grandmother only swims in summer.
奶奶只在夏天游泳。
■Grandmother helps with washing and baby-sitting.
奶奶帮忙洗洗涮涮和照看婴儿。
■Grandmother is the oldest in my family.
奶奶是我们家中最老的。
■Grandmother is doing up some strawberries.
奶奶正在用草莓制成果酱。
■The grandmother asked me to look in on the boy.
奶奶让我去拜访一下那个男孩。
■Grandmother sighed: "You never can tell, can you?
奶奶说:“真看不出!