| 词汇 | father-in-law |
| 释义 | father-in-law noun[ C ] uk /ˈfɑː.ðər.ɪn.lɔː/ us /ˈfɑː.ðɚ.ɪn.lɑː/plural^fathers-in-law B2 the father of your husband or wife岳父；公公 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. Family: non-blood relations auntie blended family brother-in-law co-brother co-sister godfather godmother godparent godson in-law sister-in-law son-in-law step step kid stepbrother stepfather stepmother stepmum stepparent stepsister 'Nothing could be better,' said the father-in-law, rubbing his hands. His irritation was not likely to be soothed when he realised the extent to which he had been duped by his father-in-law. On hearing that we intended to remain for the night where we were, he persuaded us to accompany him to the estate of his father-in-law, which was situated close at hand. Then he woke his father-in-law gently, and went off. Young men don't seem to care, as a general rule, for an idiot father-in-law! father-in-law | American Dictionaryfather-in-law noun[ C ] us/ˈfɑð·ər·ɪnˌlɔ/pluralfathers-in-lawus/ˈfɑð·ərz·ɪnˌlɔ/ the father of someone’s husband or wife Examples of father-in-lawfather-in-law His father-in-law, his brother-in-law and another of his wife's relatives provided him with loans as well. My father-in-law was very worried, and we had made arrangements for him to warn us of any impending perils by a code. Contemporary biographers also noted that her father-in-law was unhappy with her public displays of knowledge. The following year, my wife and father-in-law were invited for tea and biscuits. More young males were likely to marry and live in the household of a father-in-law than to live in their fathers' own households (75 : 36). He did not behave like a real father would, whereas my father-in-law is very different. He happily informed his father that he had given up medicine to work with his father-in-law, who was a stock-broker. Such is the case in the various registers of respect which entail avoiding the name of the father-in-law and any word resembling it. Two tickets get very expensive, so father-in-law only must go. The son-in-law received the granary and storehouse ; his father-in-law got the three barns and a small sauna. For my 73-year-old father-in-law in 2004, all the papers had been prepared. More signicant was what the gift of cloaks symbolized: the restitution of respect and honor to the father-in-law lost by the son-in-law's immodest behavior and his deance of elders. He was also a potential father-in-law. My father-in-law was involved in drilling many of the oil wells before production commenced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He began a most dreadful story about a beautiful young lady whom it was desirable for certain reasons to keep away from her future father-in-law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of father-in-law 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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