- 1nB2
/ˈsʌn ɪn lɑː/ · /ˈsʌn ɪn lɔː/
the man who is married to your daughter.
女婿
複數 sons-in-law
核心畫面
Picture your family table with one more chair at it. The man in that chair married your daughter, so he counts as a son to you — not by blood, but by the marriage that brought him in. That is what the -in-law part says: this tie comes from law, not birth.
可以想成你家餐桌旁多出一張椅子。坐在那裡的男人娶了你女兒，從此就算你的「兒子」——不是生出來的，是這樁婚事把他帶進來…更多收起
可以想成你家餐桌旁多出一張椅子。坐在那裡的男人娶了你女兒，從此就算你的「兒子」——不是生出來的，是這樁婚事把他帶進來的。-in-law 這個尾巴講的正是這件事：這層關係來自法律上的成立，不是血緣。同一組還有 daughter-in-law（媳婦）、mother-in-law（岳母／婆婆），拆法都一樣。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。
son-in-lawnoun/ˈsʌnɪnˌlɔː/
- 1
The husband of one's child.
- 12 ¶ And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place. 13 For we will destroy this place, because the crie of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD: and the LORD hath sent vs to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
- A man in Salvage, N.L., is being called a 'miracle man' by some residents in the community for lifting a vehicle off his son-in-law, but he says he's no hero.
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。