1. 1姻親。常特指公婆或岳父母;口語也會說「對方家長」。

    Your in-laws are the family you get through marriage, not through birth. People most often mean the father and mother of your husband or wife, but the word can cover brothers, sisters, and the wider family too. “The in-laws are coming this weekend” usually means those parents, and sometimes the whole visiting side. It is everyday English, a little informal, and almost always plural when you mean the group. For one person you say mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, and so on. Though actually the “law” here is the old idea of being related by the law of marriage, not by blood — that is why they are “in-laws” and not “in-bloods.” Some families use it ; some use it with a small sigh.

    in-laws 指因為結婚而來的家人,多半是配偶的父母,也可以包括兄弟姊妹等。例句「The in-laws are coming this weekend」通常是說那對父母要來,有時也包括整個來訪的那一邊親戚。它是日常用語,口氣稍微隨意,指一群人時幾乎都用複數;指一個人時,要說「mother-in-law」、「father-in-law」、「sister-in-law」之類。這裡的 law 指的是婚姻建立的關係,不是血緣,所以叫 in-laws。有些家庭用這個詞時很溫暖,有些則帶著一點無奈。

組成From in + laws: related by marriage law, not by blood. The -s marks the family as a group.

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原始詞典資料1 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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • in-law

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