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/ˈmʌðɚr ɪn lɑː/ · /ˈmʌðər ɪn lɔː/
The mother of the person you are married to — your husband's mother or your wife's mother.
婆婆／岳母
複數 mothers-in-law
核心畫面
A mother who becomes yours not by birth but by marriage: you married her child, and that piece of paper made her family. The -in-law part means exactly that — related through the law of marriage, not through blood.
可以想成一位「因為結婚才變成你母親」的人：你娶了或嫁了她的孩子，這段婚姻就把她放進你的家庭裡。字尾的 -in-law…更多收起
可以想成一位「因為結婚才變成你母親」的人：你娶了或嫁了她的孩子，這段婚姻就把她放進你的家庭裡。字尾的 -in-law 說的正是這件事——這層關係是靠婚姻（法律）連起來的，不是靠血緣。中文要看是誰在講：先生的媽媽是婆婆，太太的媽媽是岳母，英文一律用同一個字。原始詞典資料5 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。
mother-in-lawnoun/ˈmʌ.ðəɹ.ɪnˌlɔː/
- 1
The mother of one's spouse.
- 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.
- Odontophobia, or the fear of dental work, seems equally plausible, as does pentheraphobia - fear of the mother-in-law.
- 2
A mother-in-law apartment.
- 3
A mother-in-law sandwich.
- 4
obsoleteA stepmother.
- Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds,
- 5
A spicy Caribbean sauce made with peppers, carrots, onions, lime juice, etc.
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。