5. a female ancestor She learned skills passed down from her grandmothers.
grandmotherly 片语
片语
avuncular伯父的;叔伯的;慈祥的
grandmotherly 例句
英汉例句
for example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that opposed immunizations;
i watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees, with that preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have.
我看着它卷着青草在膝盖上拍打,为大象式的怡然自得、意定神閑的气场所笼罩。
but instead i shuffled into the dining room and sat at one of the long tables next to a grandmotherly woman eating from a tupperware bowl.
但是,恰恰相反,我移步到了餐厅的一个长桌旁,坐在一个用特百惠碗吃饭的奶奶旁。
they look kindly at marianne, and the grandmotherly wife sums up the story's theme when she remarks that 「sometimes what you get turns out to be better than what you wanted in the first place.」