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/ˈnefjuː/
the son of your or sister, or the son of your husband's or wife's or sister.
姪子/外甥
複數 nephews
核心畫面
Picture the family tree one step sideways and one step down: your brother's or sister's son. Not your own child, but the boy in the next branch of the same family — and the word covers your spouse's side too.
可以想成家族樹上「橫跨一步、再往下一步」的那個男孩:你的兄弟姊妹生的兒子。不是你自己的小孩,但同一個家族的下一代;而…更多收起
可以想成家族樹上「橫跨一步、再往下一步」的那個男孩:你的兄弟姊妹生的兒子。不是你自己的小孩,但同一個家族的下一代;而且配偶那邊的兄弟姊妹的兒子,英文一樣叫 nephew。中文要分姪子(兄弟的兒子)和外甥(姊妹的兒子),英文一個字全包,這正是使用時最容易卡住的地方。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。
Nephewname
- 1
A surname.
nephewnoun/ˈnɛf.ju/
- 1
A son of one's sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either a son of one's brother (fraternal nephew) or a son of one's sister (sororal nephew).
- 2
A son of one's cousin or cousin-in-law
- 3
archaicA son of one's child.
- Hir father many a time and oft would say my daughter deere, Of Nephewes thou my debtour art, their Graundsires heart to chéere.
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Descendant
- On that day Adam shall see all his nephews together
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。