grandmother

IPA/ˈɡrænmʌðə(r)/
KK[ɡrˈændmˌʌðɚ]IPA/ˈɡrænmʌðər/

grandmother — 名詞

  • grandmothersingular
  • grandmothersplural

1. the mother of one of your parents; a woman whose son or daughter has given birth

1.名詞A2
釋義

祖母；外祖母

父親或母親的母親

the mother of one of your parents; a woman whose son or daughter has given birth to a child of their own.

例句

Aiko visits her grandmother in the countryside every summer to help with the vegetable garden.

Aiko 每年夏天都去鄉下探望祖母，幫忙整理菜園。

visits her grandmother — common verb + collocation pattern

Leila's grandmother taught her how to make dumplings from scratch using a secret family recipe.

Leila 的外祖母教她如何從頭包水餃，用的是家傳祕方。

possessive noun + grandmother — showing kinship relationship

常見搭配
  • maternal grandmother
  • paternal grandmother
  • great-grandmother
  • visit one's grandmother
  • grandmother's house
  • grandmother's birthday
同義詞
  • grandma

    informal, very common in spoken English; shorter and warmer than 'grandmother'

  • nana

    informal, used especially by young children or in British English

  • granny

    informal, sometimes considered old-fashioned but still widely used

用法筆記

In Traditional Chinese, the exact term depends on which side of the family: 祖母 (zǔmǔ) or 奶奶 (nǎinai) for the father's mother, and 外祖母 (wàizǔmǔ) or 外婆 (wàipó) for the mother's mother. Colloquially, 奶奶 and 外婆 are far more common in daily speech.

慣用語

teach your grandmother to suck eggs

idiom

to give advice to someone who already has a lot more experience than you in a particular area, and probably knows more than you do.

在行家面前班門弄斧；教專家做事

When the trainee tried to tell the head chef how to season the stew, the chef laughed and said, "Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs."

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