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 grandfather ['grænd`fɑðɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 祖父, 始祖

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  1. His grandfather passed away last year.
    他的祖父去年去世了。
  2. My maternal grandfather is coming.
    我的外祖父要来了。
  3. Grandfather was in the trenches during the First War.
    在第一次世界大战中,我祖父驻守在法国北部前线。


grandfather
[ noun ]
the father of your father or mother
<noun.person>


Grandfather \Grand"fa"ther\, n.
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor immediately after
the father or mother in lineal ascent.

{Grandfather longlegs}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Daddy longlegs}.

  1. Some date back decades, including the wishbone from the eagle, which was handed down from a friend's grandfather.
  2. William Clay Ford said Thursday he was retiring as a vice chairman of Ford Motor Co., paving the way for a fourth generation of family leadership of the automaker founded by his grandfather, Henry Ford.
  3. Reggie Wyckoff of Genoa, a third-generation Colorado farmer who operates a 6,000-acre farm homesteaded by his grandfather, became president of the 60,000-member wheatgrowers group last week and immediately made some pessimistic observations.
  4. Lucius Cary, who started VCR 16 years ago, is the grandfather of the business angel introduction industry.
  5. They said Nelson Mandela's father was the brother of Monde Mandela's grandfather.
  6. Pulliam, Quayle's grandfather, was publisher of The Star and News.
  7. He spoke for an hour and a half and then got pneumonia and died a few weeks later." Actually, that was William Henry Harrison, Benjamin's grandfather.
  8. His grandfather, who had arrived from Ireland during the mid-19th century potato famine, started several electric utilities that later became part of the Consolidated Edison Co. of New York.
  9. With more than $1 million, he is a leader in the ranks of 164 House veterans who escape a 1979 ethics law banning personal use of leftover campaign funds, thanks to a controversial "grandfather clause" exempting those elected before 1980.
  10. Her mother was a native of Marysville, and her grandfather was once a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court, Krumm said.
  11. Salem School was founded in 1920 by Hahn and Prince Max von Baden, Count Max's grandfather.
  12. The trust is named for Quayle's grandfather, who died in 1975.
  13. In 1936, Harmon began managing the newspaper, which was founded as the Litchfield Independent by his grandfather in 1876.
  14. Mr. Meyer becomes the first chief executive who isn't a member of the Geier family since Frederick A. Geier, grandfather of the current chairman, bought control of the concern nearly a century ago.
  15. He repeatedly invoked the achievements of his famous forebears _ his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his mother, Indira Gandhi, both also prime ministers.
  16. "The bonfires are an old tradition passed on from my grandfather and his grandfather and all the other grandfathers, I guess," said the 65-year-old Oubre, who has been in charge of building the bonfires for 50 years.
  17. "The bonfires are an old tradition passed on from my grandfather and his grandfather and all the other grandfathers, I guess," said the 65-year-old Oubre, who has been in charge of building the bonfires for 50 years.
  18. In 1969, Phillippi was managing editor of The Indianapolis News. The late Eugene C. Pulliam, Quayle's grandfather, was publisher of the News.
  19. She answered the call, and still she wonders if her grandfather would approve of her journey eastward.
  20. "My grandfather, R.J. Reynolds, helped get America hooked on cigarettes through clever advertising.
  21. "I wore out three typewriter ribbons and used up all my dad's stationery," he said. "I got the names and addresses of the state legislators from my grandfather, who was the county coroner at the time.
  22. Spyros Theotokis, a former foreign minister who founded a right-wing party and whose father and grandfather were both premiers of Greece, died of a heart attack, relatives said Thursday.
  23. Omar Sharif will be host of the syndicated special on April 20. The relics came from the grave of Pharoah Amenophis III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun.
  24. Numbed and unable to find a way out of the collapsing shelter, she and her grandfather finally were rescued by some villagers.
  25. While his grandfather pulled up heavy, tarred-cotton nets by hand, Randy Babich uses a power winch to haul nylon nets aboard the Paragon, his 56-foot seiner.
  26. Sadek Mahdi's grandfather, Abdel-Rahman Mahdi, in 1945 founded the Umma Party, establishing a power base of the 3 million to 5 million Sudanese who believe Abdullah was the Mahdi.
  27. Michael Marcus, whose grandfather started the dairy in 1924, says home milk delivery started to decline during the 1950s and 1960s with the rise of the two-car family.
  28. Bit hard to believe - given that he got the chairman's job at 38 and has been doing it for nearly 20 years. True, Sir Paul's grandfather started at Vaux as a humble accountant in 1896, and the family now owns less than 1 per cent of the company.
  29. "They must be going to blacktop the whole farm," joked Buckner, 81, a retired farmer who sees most of the comings and goings on Buckner Road, named for his grandfather.
  30. His father was a military commander and his grandfather mayor of the city.
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