英:[ˈgrænmɑ:]
美:[ˈɡrændˌmɑ,]
英:[ˈgrænmɑ:]
美:[ˈɡrændˌmɑ,]
grand·ma
graend ma [or] grae m
复数:grandmas
1793年,缩写自 grandmama(1749年),是 grandmother 的童言或亲昵称呼(见 grand- 和 mama)。
The first known use of grandma was in 1772
1 I finish up the water and set the glass on his grandma’s coffee table, beside an ashtray that’s definitely been used.
2 Later that afternoon, after running more web searches that didn’t yield anything, Brandon said, “I’ve been thinking...your grandma wasn’t the only person who got a letter. Parker contacted four other people.”
3 My grandma was a singer.
我的奶奶曾经是一名歌手。
4 I mourned the loss of my grandma, and wondered if I’d ever be able to travel to Iran to visit her grave.
5 “Your grandma is crazy,” Irene told me, extending the word crazy and rolling her heavy brown eyes.
6 Maybe, now, I can be more like my grandma.
7 “This is just like old times when your grandma was here, Lee,” Chrissie said.
8 “Your grandma always said yellow was my color. Whatta you think?”
9 My stuffed rabbits crawl out of their burrows, noses awiggling, pink bunny, purple bunny, a gingham bunny from my grandma.
10 “My family has a big turkey dinner. At my grandma’s house. Out in the country.”
11 His grandma wouldn’t be here when his father arrived.
12 My grandma said she was behaving like a toddler.
13 “What about your grandma? Don't you miss her?”
14 “I saw you watching me earlier when I was fighting with my grandma and I thought...”
15 “I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!”
16 “That child has been God’s gift to me,” she told my grandma.
17 “Don’t worry. My grandma is in charge of the fryer,” I tell her.
18 His grandma had only four Sunday dinners in her repertoire—chicken- fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, pot roast, and corned beef—but they were all good.
19 I stared back at my grandma, wiping my face.
20 When his mom got there, he hung out in the kitchen with her and his grandma, and listened to them gossip about the neighbors.