- 1nB2
/ˈdɑːtər ɪn lɑː/ · /ˈdɔːtə(r) ɪn lɔː/
the woman who is married to your son.
媳婦
複數 daughters-in-law
核心畫面
Your son's wife. The -in-law part marks a family tie that came from a marriage rather than from birth: she is placed in the daughter position of your family by law, not by blood. The same piece works across the whole set — son-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law.
可以想成「因為婚姻而站到女兒那個位置的人」：也就是兒子的太太，中文叫媳婦。關鍵在 -in-law 這塊——它標記的是…更多收起
可以想成「因為婚姻而站到女兒那個位置的人」：也就是兒子的太太，中文叫媳婦。關鍵在 -in-law 這塊——它標記的是「這層關係是婚姻帶來的，不是血緣」，她被放進你家女兒的那個位子，靠的是法律上的婚姻。認得這塊就整組都通了：son-in-law（女婿）、mother-in-law（婆婆／岳母）、brother-in-law 都是同一個做法。原始詞典資料1 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。
daughter-in-lawnoun/ˈdɔːtə(ɹ)ɪnˌlɔː/
- 1
The wife of one's child.
- For I am come to ſet a man at variance* againſt his father, ⁊ the daughter againſt her mother, and the daughter in law againſt her mother in law.
- They discovered Weller had two daughters and a daughter-in-law in the same cemetery.
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。