- 1nA2
/ænt/ · /ɑːnt/
Your father's or your mother's sister, or the wife of your father's or your mother's .
阿姨；姑姑
複數 aunts
核心畫面
One step up the family tree and one step sideways: your parent's sister, or the woman who married your parent's . English keeps just this one word where Chinese splits the same people into several — 阿姨、姑姑、舅媽、嬸嬸 all come out as aunt.
可以想成家族樹上「往上一代、再往旁邊一格」的那個位置：爸媽的姊妹，或是爸媽的兄弟娶的太太。中文會把這些人分得很細——…更多收起
可以想成家族樹上「往上一代、再往旁邊一格」的那個位置：爸媽的姊妹，或是爸媽的兄弟娶的太太。中文會把這些人分得很細——阿姨、姑姑、舅媽、嬸嬸各有各的叫法；英文一律用 aunt 一個字帶過，不分父系母系，也不分血親還是姻親。要講清楚是哪一位，得另外補一句 my mother's sister 這樣。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
auntnoun/ɑːnt/
- 1
The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
- 2
The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
- 3
A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
- 4
obsoleteAny elderly woman.
- 5
obsoleteA procuress or bawd.
- I saw neither hope of his reclaiming, nor comfort in his being; and was it not then better bestowed upon his uncle than upon one of his aunts?—I need not say bawd, for every one knows what aunt stands for in the last translation.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。