喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈɡrænˌmʌðər/ · /ˈɡrænˌmʌðə/祖母／外婆

    The mother of your mother or of your father.

    中文會分「外婆」（媽媽的媽媽）和「奶奶」（爸爸的媽媽），但英文兩邊都叫 grandmother，一個字就好。真的需要說明是哪一邊，才會加 maternal（媽媽那邊）或 paternal（爸爸那邊），或直接說 my mother's mother。grand- 這個字頭可以想成「往上再一代」——mother → grandmother，再往上就是 great-grandmother（曾祖母）。平常跟家人講話多半用 grandma、granny 這種親暱的叫法，grandmother 聽起來比較正式，寫作文或介紹家人時常用。

    示範例句 · Example

    My grandmother makes the best pineapple cakes in our family.

    中文翻譯我的祖母做我們家裡最好吃的鳳梨酥。

    常見搭配

    • maternal grandmother

      外婆（媽媽的媽媽）

      your mother's mother

      My maternal grandmother taught me how to plant beans.

    • paternal grandmother

      奶奶（爸爸的媽媽）

      your father's mother

      The baby was named after her paternal grandmother.

    • great-grandmother

      曾祖母

      the grandmother of your mother or father

      My great-grandmother was born more than a hundred years ago.

    • live with your grandmother

      跟阿嬤住在一起

      to have your home in the same house as her

      Sam and his sister live with their grandmother on High Street.

    • become a grandmother

      當上阿嬤

      to have a first grandchild born

      Aisha's mother became a grandmother last spring.

    • my grandmother's house

      阿嬤家

      the house where your grandmother lives

      We have dinner at my grandmother's house every Sunday.

    意思相近

    grandmagrannynannannagran

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

Middle English graundmodre; grand- + mother, compare French grand-mère.

由 grand- 加上 mother 組成，可比較法文 grand-mère。

Wiktionary

You can picture one step further back up the family line: your mother's mother, or your father's mother. 'Grand-' marks that extra step up the generations, the same step you see in grandfather and grandson.

可以想成家族線往上再跨一階：媽媽的媽媽，或爸爸的媽媽。前面的 grand- 標的就是「再往上一代」這一步，跟 grandfather、grandson 裡的那一步是同一個。英文在這裡不分父方母方，同一個字同時涵蓋中文的祖母和外婆。

同家族的字

grandmothers

意思相近

grandmagrannynannannagran

原始詞典資料3 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。

grandmothernoun/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðə(r)/

  • 1

    A mother of someone's parent.

    • […] man may admit that his grandfathers and grandmothers were mon[keys a]nd monkeyesses if he want^([sic]) to; that is his privilege.
    • "It's a nightingale floor," our grandmother told us. "It warns us of thieves in the night."
  • 2

    A female ancestor or progenitor.

  • 3

    In Amazonian shamanism and related contexts, a reverential name for the ayahuasca vine or brew, symbolizing its role as a wise, guiding spirit.

    • "Enter ayahuasca, the mystical grandmother of the psychedelic family, a beacon of profound spiritual experiences"

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。