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/ˈɡræntʃaɪld/
The child of your son, or the child of your daughter. A grandchild can be a boy or a girl, and English uses the same word for both sides of the family. It is said from the side: the child is your grandchild, and you are their grandmother or grandfather.
孫子女／孫輩
複數 grandchildren
核心畫面
Think of three rows in a family: you, then your children, then their children. A grandchild is anyone standing in that third row, counted from where you stand — boy or girl, and from either your son's side or your daughter's side.
可以想成家族排成三排：你、你的小孩、再來是你小孩生的小孩。grandchild 就是站在第三排的那個人，而且是「從你…更多收起
可以想成家族排成三排：你、你的小孩、再來是你小孩生的小孩。grandchild 就是站在第三排的那個人，而且是「從你這邊往下數」才這樣叫。英文在這裡比中文粗一格——不分男女，也不分是兒子那邊還是女兒那邊，孫子、孫女、外孫、外孫女通通是同一個字。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。
grandchildnoun/ˈɡɹændˌtʃaɪld/
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A child of someone's child.
- ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.
- Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
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。