| 词汇 | aunt |
| 释义 | aunt noun[ C ] uk /ɑːnt/ us /ænt//ɑːnt/(informalauntie, aunty) A2 the sister of someone's father or mother, or the wife of someone's uncle or aunt: 姑母;姨母;婶婶;伯母;舅母 I have an aunt in Australia.我有一个姑妈在澳大利亚。 This is my Aunt Camille.这是我姑妈卡米尔。 [ as form of address ]Do you want some tea, Aunt Alice?爱丽丝姨母，您要喝点儿茶吗? your relatives relativeAll my relatives gather every year for a family reunion. extended familyHe has a very large extended family. relationShe is a distant relation of his, though I don't quite remember how. kinHe remained true to his kin. mother's/father's side (of the family)I have aunts and uncles on my mother's side of the family. After my aunt died, we arranged for her house to be cleared . We're going to visit my aunt and uncle on Sunday .我们周日要去看望我的叔叔和婶婶。 She has two rather aged aunts.她有两位年迈的姑姑。 She always behaves badly when her aunts come to visit. We used to spend the weekends at my aunt's cottage in the country. Family: relations in general anti-family auntie baby daddy baby mama biologically father fatherhood filial filially first cousin kinsman kinswoman kith and kin long-lost loved one relationship relative removed second cousin sib aunt | American Dictionaryaunt noun[ C ] us/ænt, ɑnt/ the sister of someone’s mother or father, or the wife of someone’s uncle: We stopped off to visit my aunt and uncle in Boston. Examples of auntaunt For instance, a quarter of the working parents reported using their children's aunts, and 10 per cent, their children's uncles when they were at work. She projects, from the start, an alternative lesson, and at the end she pronounces her pride in being like her aunt. In the cases of uncles and aunts, childlessness may often have been a factor. The neighbors of ' aunt ' are ' uncle ', 'relative ' and ' relation'. Shortly after being hired, he constructed a thatched house of his own down the street from an aunt. Furthermore, other kin (parents, aunts and uncles, siblings, cousins, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews) of diverse ages are frequently cited as significant network members. Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless an aunt or uncle has been a surrogate parent. The aunt reciprocates her niece's call for complicity. Consider the following example, in which an aunt is requesting her three-year-old nephew to talk. We may be generally reticent as to our uncles and aunts, and may drop even our brothers and sisters in our ordinary conversation. He immediately wakes in horror, realising that he has dreamed the tale of the count's aunt, and encountered, meanwhile, the voice belonging to the portrait. 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. Some aunts who were notable characters also played similarly powerful roles in their families. Certainly it was easiest when the grandmother or aunt lived in the same house, but there were also striking instances when they lived close by. His only sister and his aunt are both nuns. 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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