grandmother

['grænd.mʌðə]

n. (外)祖母

例句与用法：

He went to see his grandmother every now and then.

他时而去看看他的祖母。

Do not try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

不要班门弄斧。

The woman on the photo is my paternal grandmother.

照片上的这个妇人是我祖母。

My grandmother has a complex against foreigners.

我奶奶对外国人抱有偏见。

She was named after her grandmother.

她是根据她祖母的名字命名的。

It's very noble of you to look after my old grandmother when I was out for business.

你心地真好，在我出差期间照顾我年迈的外婆。

My grandmother got married at the age of seventeen.

我的祖母十七岁就结婚了。

I will go to visit my grandmother next week.

下星期我要去看我的外婆。

详细释义：

n.[C]

1. 祖母; 外祖母

Grandmother used to darn her own stockings.

祖母过去总是自己织补袜子。

2. 女祖先

3. 老太太, 可敬的老夫人

短语词组：

teach one's grandmother (how) to suck eggs

1. 班门弄斧

He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching his grandmother to suck eggs.

他老是对总裁说该如何管理业务, 就跟班门弄斧似的。