| 词汇 | example_english_grandmother |
| 释义 | Examples of grandmotherThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Four grandmothers are described as ' powerful ', ' very strong ', or ' very dominant ' women who, in many respects, led their families. Factors associated with changes in visiting between grandmothers and grandchildren following an adult child's marriage breakdown. Raising grandchildren : the experience of black and white grandmothers. The qualitative data indicates that many grandmothers were ' on standby ', always ready to fulfil domestic tasks first before even considering leisure for themselves. In taking a sometimes quite ' moral ' attitude to their own children's actions some grandmothers were indeed able to maintain close contact with sons' ex-partners. I propose an epistemic strategy growing out of my grandmother's supremely rational advice. In light of the fear of scepticism that externalists drill into us, we would be wise to listen to our grandmothers. The majority of grandparents we interviewed were retired, or the grandmothers at least were no longer in paid employment. There may therefore be a sharp fall in the future availability of grandmothers for the childcare economy. One doesn't pay attention to the grandmothers and the old men, because they aren't dancing at all. By contrast, there were a few aunts and grandmothers who played, usually temporarily, key caring roles, but to whom the child never became closely attached. First, they were above all women, and among women, grandmothers. I know of grandmothers who have to live in a back-garden shack. Many grandmothers were comparatively fit and active, their median age being only 50 years. Fewer grandmothers are willing to work full-time as baby-sitters and household managers. Whole villages, ' old men, ancient grandmothers, men and women ' came for medicines. Specifically, older women were no longer shown as caring housewives and grandmothers, but as unskilled working women that support their acquaintances, relatives and friends. She admires her grandmother's lifestyle and her achievements at work. The only thing that was helping was my grandmother's pension. In the story, a young girl was collecting firewood and, against her maternal grandmother's admonitions, took a short-cut home through a rocky canyon. The grandmothers of 1981 might actually have been providing more care than this, whether they were employed or not, if more of them then lived close by. Most people not only become grandmothers or grandfathers but also see their grandchildren grow up, many to the point that they have begun a family of their own. A very special relationship : granddaughters' perceptions of grandmothers. The grandmother's house became their second home. The psychological effects of sudden infant death on grandmothers and grandfathers. Early in the study, visits to grandchildren from grandmothers were frequently associated with providing childcare for very young grandchildren, often when daughters or daughters-in-law were having the next grandchild. She had had long and close relationships with her two grandmothers, and is highly skilled in establishing rapport as evinced by the length and details of the interviewees' responses. My grandmother's brother's child got married. I feel my grandmother's warm embrace. Certainly, a focus on provocative and counterintuitive findings helps social psychologists maintain their course enrollments, and helps distinguish "scientific" social psychology from the common-sense social psychology of our grandmothers. The grandmothers of the low achievers were not only emotionally supportive of their daughters, they often appeared to encourage their daughters' dependency rather than their selfreliance. A population code with added grandmothers? An old lady who was born in the street remembers it in her grandmother's day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They now tell us that they will save the pound—they could not even save their own grandmothers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was nothing funny in her going to work in the cotton mills at 11 years of age, as did both my grandmothers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is then the question of a beneficial interest for our grandmothers, cousins, sisters or aunts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Today's grandmothers are used to looking after children all day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the age of 2½ my own little girl, now aged seven, opened her grandmother's handbag and extracted a packet of seasickness-pills. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People are marrying younger and women today are not prepared as were their grandmothers to have long periods of separation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Every time an uneconomic pit is kept open, the cost of grandmother's electricity goes up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we were to prosecute everyone who encouraged it, we would probably end up with prisons full of grandmothers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let him take advice from old married women and grandmothers, and reconsider this question of the home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All female circumcision should be made illegal, whether by doctors, specialists in hospitals, ignorant grandmothers, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the last century, our grandmothers and their grandmothers could buy any drugs, not just in chemists but in local shops. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not genuinely concerned whether people in the villages can get their children to school or their grandmothers to the doctor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Elderly and young people have an expectation of life that their grandfathers and grandmothers never had. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At any rate it is as good an excuse as going to a grandmother's funeral. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both my grandmothers are still alive, and both are 90. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We no longer have aunts, grandmothers and other relations around, all lending a hand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not have any such officers, but black grandmothers are in fact to be found. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English People have been left them by their grandmothers or aunts, but they cannot keep them up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They heard both parents and both grandmothers being cross-examined for over five hours, and they retired for about half an hour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understood that it was customary for grandmothers to spoil their children, not to restrict them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suspect that, despite my great-grandmother's attempts to prove otherwise, water is a basic requirement of human existence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The grandmothers are usually the people who organise the ceremonies and selective people carry out the operations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not thinking so much of children with unearned income, because in many cases they receive this income from grandmothers or other generous relatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the whole, like my grandmother's vegetables, the shopping has been done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Grandmothers play an important part in our social sphere in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember such transactions in my grandmother's home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, your grandmothers did not legislate—they had not the vote—otherwise, the country to-day would be even better than it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The things that scandalise our grandmothers to-day are, no doubt, very different from the things which scandalised their grandmothers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the meanwhile, we have the problem that our grandmothers tended to teach us about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even the ideas of our grandmothers are still being conveyed, and they are being carried into television and the radio. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even the youngsters knew that their grandmothers and grandfathers were not receiving proper retirement pensions in this modern age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are an awful lot of people who cannot get over their grandmothers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the new towns there is a rootlessness; there are not the grandmothers—there is not that generation which one has in two-generation towns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our grandmothers did not have much of a choice—it was going out scrubbing or taking in other people's washing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Enormous social reinforcements are provided when grandmothers can look after children and do some babysitting and other members of the family can provide a stimulus. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Large numbers of grandmothers are caring for children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now we are getting proposals to conscript labour from among schoolboys and grandmothers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second case concerns the handling by the bank, as executor and trustee, of 63 freehold reversions in my grandmother's estate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most children have grandmothers and grandfathers living; they know old people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Come the war, we employed grandmothers as stitchers, and very good they were. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Grandmothers are made to be scandalised by the rising generation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had just been refused permission to attend his grandmother's funeral by the social services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, one of my great, great-grandmothers worked as a coal miner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why are drastic steps to be taken to call up grandmothers and other people who will be utterly useless in aircraft production for months? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They say that grandfathers and grandmothers are too soft and sentimental with the children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They think, talk and act differently from their grandmothers and grandfathers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Grandmothers have a great part to play in the social structure of our country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often, grandmothers or grandfathers live some way away in a different authority area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our problem is that we are grandfathers and grandmothers deliberating on the affairs of the nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are schools where teachers are teaching in the same way as their grandmothers did. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my view, streetwise grandmothers are precisely the people who should be undertaking work with young families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Out of 447 grandmothers, 406 were reported to be positive (90.8%) and 11 negative towards breastfeeding. The birth of another child seems, predictably, to be a situation in which grandmothers are called upon for assistance. Sixteen percent live with their grandmothers and 4% live with their grandfathers. Most such claims were for supplementary relief on grounds of partial destitution or disability on the grandmother's part. All of these were women over 55 living in three-generation households, with six being grandmothers and the other a great-aunt. Both calculations include those grandmothers who were excluded from contact, and therefore underrate the increased intensity of those who remained in touch throughout. Despite extensive efforts to recruit male carers, all group members were female, 90 per cent of whom were grandmothers. Likewise, non-employed older women in general are used to estimate likely childcare by non-employed grandmothers. Increased migration over the last two decades, however, has reduced the chances that grandmothers will live in the same area as their grandchildren. Relationships within these clusters often fall within the range expected for second order maternal relations, such as aunts/nieces and grandmothers / granddaughters. Towards their grandchildren, they wanted to project the image of sweetness and caring traditionally associated with grandmothers. A few of the grandmothers were sick and needed to be cared for by their daughters. Their grandmothers, however, may have been more skeptical of the status which kigwarie conferred. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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