| 词汇 | example_english_uncle |
| 释义 | Examples of uncleThese 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 uncles and three aunts had virtually no contact with nieces or nephews and rarely saw any of them. Marriage to the niece, or maternal uncle's daughter was permitted and was often considered the ideal marriage. Thus disgruntled children could always turn to uncles. Accumulators too had fathers and uncles, and had to tread carefully in their dealings with them. However, the scientists' brothers were also classified for occupational status together with the scientists' paternal uncles and grandfathers. After 1915, he was invited to fill some of his uncle's engagements. Until he was 21, he worked alongside his grandfather, father and uncles. Both fathers and maternal uncles received some payments when a young woman married. Young bachelors worked for their uncles from circumcision until marriage, with time allotted for them to earn wealth for themselves. Thus, grandparents were turned to more immediately than aunts or uncles. The remainder of the male caregivers included 68.7% biological fathers, 13.6% stepfathers, 2.7% adoptive fathers, 1.4% uncles, 1.4% grandfathers, and 2.0% other. The approximate risk to other relatives were 6% for half-siblings, 2% for uncles and aunts, and 2% for first cousins. One of my dad's uncles was dead because of it. The rest lived with more distant relatives such as uncles and aunts, nephews and nieces or cousins. Gifts from uncles and grandparents were most common, but younger brothers, sisters, aunts and occasionally even cousins featured. Secondly, it does not take into account important elements of the family : uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, grandparents, and so on. There was an average of 6 to 7 members per household, which could include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and live-in household help. The proceeds of cash cropping were divided unequally between old men and young men, with elders (maternal uncles) gathering the lion's share while their nephews received much less. There was also a more modest decrease after 1813 in the number of persons three degrees of kinship removed from the household head, such as uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces. At the extreme, uncles controlled their nephews. Santaanes (work parties) usually honour a nominal superior (khilif) : sons, suitors, nephews, daughters, sisters and nieces perform santaanes, while fathers, uncles and in-laws profit from them. However, the relationships between older grandparents and their adult grandchildren or those between older aunts and uncles and their adult nieces and nephews have been less studied. In consequence brothers, sons and uncles might take precedence over a wife and female offspring; and so the family was left in a biologically incomplete state for a considerable period. He would show us our land, the borders of our land, where our house was, where our uncle's house was, where our grandfather's house was, one by one. We went to my uncle's. Nine of these very young heads, or close to half of the households, had both parents living in the household and sometimes even grandparents, aunts and uncles. None of his uncles or cousins came. In particular, coreless (' no family ') households made it their duty : unmarried or widowed siblings, nephews and uncles, and so on, lived together in their latter days. Average total knowledge score for all the respondents was 10.9 6.5 others, which include older uncles and aunts who were apparently the most knowledgeable among the respondents. I receive letters saying that they want to bring in their sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have seen our fathers, our uncles, and other relatives come out from the mines in the prime years of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no doubt that it created local employment: my grandfather, my father, my brother, several uncles and a whole stack of cousins worked there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are too many uncles and aunts, and there is too much talking down to the children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their family life will be split, and they will lose their extended family of grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their fathers, their uncles, their grandfathers had all been sailors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When the fathers, the brothers, the cousins and the uncles of those interned are released, there will be no problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My uncle's wife died quite a long time ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was interested in the comments about uncles, aunts and nephews. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have two uncles who were police officers and my cousin is a police officer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All of us have had grandfathers, fathers and uncles who were in the great war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my uncle's case, the hospital did not countenance any dose of morphine that might shorten his life, even by the smallest amount. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other people, including uncles and aunts, and fathers of an illegitimate child, may have a contribution to make and a legitimate right to be heard. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He could put his aunts, uncles and cousins on it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 More often than not, the family includes grandparents, uncles and aunts, who are elderly and themselves need support. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If their wives went out to work, the children could stay with aunts, uncles or grandparents, but that family support has been wiped out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No longer can parents rely on the influence and encouragement of grandparents, aunts and uncles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it the nuclear family—man, woman and two or three children—or the larger family, including grandparents, uncles, aunts and so forth? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a need for ordinary members of the public to come forward and offer to be "uncles"and"aunts" to children in institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was lucky enough to get £1,000 of his uncle's money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know that in nursery mythology uncles are sometimes supposed to be wicked, but nobody has ever said a word about great-uncles or great-aunts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All sorts of uncles, aunts and in-laws can suddenly appear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The aunts or uncles are placed in all parts of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My father was a trade unionist who fought for this country; my aunts and uncles fought for it too, and they were all trade unionists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that he has uncles and aunts in the same area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is married, with a number of teenage children and—perhaps within that same estate—he has an extended family of cousins, uncles and aunts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Families were separated from their grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, who, when the family lived within a nuclear unit, often lent a hand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Today it is a different proposition, but those were the days when my aunts and uncles used to go to the local vocal society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often there are uncles, aunts, grandparents and so on who are ready, willing and able to step in but who are simply overlooked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I happened to come of a family who were in very good circumstances, that is, the uncles and cousins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Similarly, there are decisions to be made about access to the children for grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Presumably we would all agree that parents and brothers and sisters are all close, but what about uncles? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the child is lucky, there are also brothers and sisters, grandparents, uncles and aunts and all the glorious host of kinsmen, noble and otherwise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had uncles who ran fruiterers, florists and butchers shops. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are for the purpose of including in the clause great-uncles and great-aunts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that it would be better to provide for the next-of-kin up to uncles and aunts and brothers and sisters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have also many uncles and cousins working on the land there at the moment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I feel that your influence can be much more felt when you speak to people as colleagues and brothers rather than as rich uncles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that house was a father, two sons, three uncles and two fathers-in-law, all of whom had served their time in the industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My grandfathers, two of my brothers and numerous cousins and uncles worked in the docks for many years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often those who are involved in burying their parents, grandparents or uncles and aunts do not feel that it is a hardship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their fathers, uncles and brothers are earning only £3. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Every house is occupied by uncles, aunts, cousins and the rest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My own knowledge of that company is further enhanced by the fact that my grandfather, four uncles, numerous cousins and my own brother worked there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I met a schoolmistress who said that two-thirds of the children in her class had lost fathers, uncles, or first cousins. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How many sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts and cousins do you have? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Children no longer live in close proximity to their grandparents, aunts and uncles and so their relatives' good—and sometimes bad—ways cannot always be passed on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to think much more about the role of men in families and the roles of grandfathers, uncles and aunts in the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His colleague, who was in his uncle's pub across the road, was slightly injured. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was making the point that the uncle's succession was fortuitous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My late father was a police officer as were two of my uncles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is she not going to be allowed to marry her uncles and her nephews? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bablus was left with a loose network of aunts and uncles, some of whom he did not know, to look after him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are young people in my constituency who have no experience of work and whose parents, uncles and neighbours have no experience of work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My paternal grandfather, father and a number of uncles were butchers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many people, especially the young, are reluctant to save for old age because their parents, aunts and uncles were ripped off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the cases of uncles and aunts, childlessness may often have been a factor. As a result, it was not uncommon in the absence of household division for household heads to live with coresident uncles and coresident older cousins. In diagonal households, heads coresided with their uncles, cousins, or both. Her grandfather had been a sarpanch and one of her uncles was in the police. Cousins, uncles, aunts form a horizontally extended family. The young men could not inherit property from their uncles. In three further cases both parents had predeceased their children ; leaving them orphaned and requesting relatives, brothers (their uncles), to act as trustees or guardians. Despite the kindness on the uncle's part, however, the nephew was permitted many liberties at his expense. Furthermore, other kin (parents, aunts and uncles, siblings, cousins, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews) of diverse ages are frequently cited as significant network members. More specifically, they challenged the authority of their maternal uncles. Parents, friends, bachelor uncles, and strangers all seem to care in different ways. We may be generally reticent as to our uncles and aunts, and may drop even our brothers and sisters in our ordinary conversation. Castration was a mere fantasy "under the influence" among the girls' skinny uncles. 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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