第三人称复数：grandmothers
名词老奶奶; （外）祖母; 女祖先
及物动词当…的祖母
不及物动词当祖母
1. This beats my grandmother.
吓了一跳。
2. Tell that to your grandmother.
胡说。
名词
1. Grandmother used to darn her own stockings.
祖母过去总是自己织补袜子。
grandmother
保险
A：My grandmother gets by on (social security/ her pension funds/ charity).
我的祖母靠（社会保险/她的抚恤基金/慈善捐款）过日子。
B：Mine too.
我的祖母也是。
Social Security-(社会保险)
A：Man, they take a lot of our paycheck.
嘿，他们从我的薪水里扣了不少钱哦。
B：Yeah, the government really takes a bite, doesn’t it?
是呀，政府确实扣除不少。
A：Seriously. The only tax I don’t mind them taking is social security. It’s only a few dollars every paycheck.
当然。只有社会保险这种税我不介意上交。每回只要从薪水里面扣除几元钱。
B：Yeah, I don’t mind it either. We’ll both end up rich slobs and not need it, but what if we do, you know?
是呀，我也不介意。我们最终肯定不会缺钱也不会需要它，但是如果我们有这个钱的话，你知道？
A：Yeah. It won’t be much, but at least we’ll have a monthly check when we get old.
是呀，虽然不多，但是最少老了以后每个月有一个固定收入。
B：Yeah. My grandmother gets by on social security and the money my grandfather invested when he was alive.
是呀，我祖母就是靠社会保险金和祖父在世时的投资生活。
A：Let’s just hope the politicians don’t figure out a way to spend it.
让我们巴望政治家们不会想着法子把它用掉吧。
B：Really？No, they couldn’t. None of them would have jobs if they did.
真的吗？不，不会的。如果他们这样做了，他们的工作就不保了。
家庭
A：Tell me about your family, Simon. Are you from a big family?
西蒙，给我们讲讲你们家的事。你来自一个大家庭吗？
B：No, my immediate family is quite small. There are only five of us. My parents, my younger brother and my younger sister. But my parents both come from large families.
不，我们自己的直系家庭相当小，只有五口人，（包括）我的父母，弟弟和妹妹。但是我父母都来自大家庭。
A：How many people are in your extended family?
你的大家庭中有多少人呢？
B：There are too many to count. I suppose, well over 100 people.
太多了，数不过来。我想有一百多人吧。
A：Do you get to see your family often?
你常和家里人见过面吗？
B：I see my immediate family every weekend, and I see my extended family about once or twice a year.We usually see each other for Christmas, Easter, and other big celebrations, like weddings.
我每个周末都和直系小家庭成员见面。我一年中能见到其他大家庭的成员一或俩次。我们经常在圣诞节，复活节和其他大的庆祝活动，如婚礼上见面。
A：Have you ever been to a family reunion?
你参加过家庭聚会吗。
B：Actually, I have been to one, but it wasn’t mine! It was one of my friends’. He didn’t want to be theonly boy there, so I went with him to keep him company. This was a long time ago, of course.
我倒是去过一次。但不是我自己家的聚会，是我的一个朋友家的聚会。他不想成为聚会上的唯一男孩，所以我去陪他。当然了，这也是很久以前的事了。
A：Are many of your relative divorced?
你的亲属中有很多人离婚吗？
B：Let me think. I believe it’s just my one uncle. He’s always been a rebel. My grandmother was very religious, so most of my relatives were too scared to get divorced!
让我想一下。我想只有我的一个叔叔离了婚。他一直是个叛逆者。我奶奶是个很虔诚的教徒，所以我的大多数亲属都不敢离婚！
A：Do you have any relatives who are single mothers?
你的亲属中有单身母亲吗？
B：I have just one-her father is the one who got divorced. Their family is sort of the black sheep of our extended family.
我只有一个亲属是单身母亲。她的父亲也离了婚。他们家是我们大家庭中的另类。
1. 祖母 蕾贝卡.碧瑾：13 Spring春 灵感花仙 | 14 Ar galon digorr布列塔尼传统民谣 安妮.艾布儿&吉尔斯.李比卡特 | 15 Grandmother祖母 蕾贝卡.碧瑾
2. 祖母;外祖母：grandma 奶奶;外婆 (4A7) | grandmother 祖母;外祖母 (3B3 ;4B2) | grandpa 爷爷;外公 (5A9)
3. 外祖母：us我们(宾格) | grandmother(外)祖母 | lady女士,夫人
1. grandmother
1. （外）祖母；奶奶；外婆
Your grandmother is the mother of your father or mother.
e.g. My grandmothers are both widows.
我奶奶和外婆都是孤寡一人。
1. grandmother
1. " Money can't buy back lives, " Chen's grandmother said.
2. Zhong Kun was brought up in Sichuan province by her maternal grandmother and has spent little time with her parents.
3. A grandmother about to take her first trip by plane was grounded before she could even take off.
4. Fanfan was raised by her stern and dour grandmother, who schooled her in the rigid etiquette of the Manchus.
5. grandmother的近义词
5. And on her desk was a calendar Mary Read's grandmother had given her years ago, each day offering a quote from a famous woman.
6. Police officers answered some calls for the grandmother and heard a female caller make threats.
7. Bianchi died in 2008 in childbirth, but Sean's Brazilian stepfather and grandmother continued to fight for custody in Brazil.
8. You's grandmother taught her how to manipulate fish skin into clothing when she was 21, after a Chinese museum asked for some specimens.
9. Tan became interested in the subject after discovering an old photograph of her grandmother's cousin, dressed in the clothing popularized by courtesans of that era.
10. grandmother
10. David's grandmother puts the books The Tar Still and Cloudberry Land by Sara Lidman in his hands.