- 1岳父／公公（配偶的父親。太太的爸爸叫岳父，先生的爸爸叫公公）
Your father-in-law is the father of your husband or your wife. He is family by marriage, not by birth. English uses one word for both sides of the family. Though actually, the feeling in real life can be quite different — some people are close to this man, some hardly know him — but the word itself only names the relationship. In writing, the are the usual form: father-in-law. Do not mix him up with a , who is your parent’s new husband, not your partner’s father.
father-in-law 指你配偶的父親，是因為結婚才成為的家人，不是因為血緣。中文要分太太的爸爸和先生的爸爸，英文卻兩邊都用這同一個字。現實裡跟他的感情可能很不一樣，有人跟他很親，也有人幾乎不太認識他，但這個字只說明關係。書寫時通常寫成帶連字號的形式。另一個容易混淆的是繼父，他是你父母再婚的對象，不是你伴侶的父親。
From the word’s history
From Middle English fader in lawe; father + in-law.
源自中古英文 fader in lawe，就是 father 加 in-law。
組成From Middle English fader in lawe (and spellings like fadyr-in-lay, fader yn lawe), equivalent to father + -in-law. -in-law marks family by marriage.
同家族的字
- mother-in-lawthe same -in-law pattern, for your partner’s mother
- brother-in-lawfamily by marriage, brother side
- sister-in-lawfamily by marriage, sister side
- son-in-lawyour child’s husband
- daughter-in-lawyour child’s wife
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
father-in-lawnoun/ˈfɑːðəɹɪnˌlɔː/
- 1
One's spouse's father.
- 2
obsoleteA stepfather.
- `Yes,` replied Snawley. `The fact is, I am not their father, Mr Squeers. I'm only their father-in-law.`
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。