喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈɡræntʃaɪld/孫子女／孫輩

    The child of your son, or the child of your daughter. A grandchild can be a boy or a girl, and English uses the same word for both sides of the family. It is said from the side: the child is your grandchild, and you are their grandmother or grandfather.

    示範例句 · Example

    My grandmother has seven grandchildren, and she remembers every birthday.

    逐字我的祖母有七個孫子女，而且她記得每一個生日。

    grandchild 是你兒子或女兒生的小孩——男生女生都算，一個字就把孫子、孫女、外孫、外孫女全部包起來，要特別指明性別時才換成 grandson 或 granddaughter。grand- 可以想成家族樹上的「一層樓」：grandma、grandpa 是往上一層，grandchild 就是往下一層，great-grandchild 再往下一層。這個字是站在阿公阿嬤那邊講的：Mei 是林太太的 grandchild，反過來林太太是 Mei 的 grandmother；同樣兩個人，看誰在說話就換一個字。複數不加 s，是 grandchildren，跟 child → children 一樣。

    常見搭配

    • my / her / their grandchild

      我的／她的／他們的孫子女

      the way this word almost always appears — with a word in front saying whose grandchild the child is

      Her grandchild is starting school this autumn.

    • have three / seven grandchildren

      有三個／七個孫子女

      to say how many grandchildren someone has

      They have three grandchildren and one on the way.

    • see your grandchildren

      去看孫子孫女

      to visit or spend time with your grandchildren

      She moved back to Tainan so she could see her grandchildren more often.

    • tell your grandchildren about something

      跟孫子孫女講某件事

      to tell your grandchildren the story of something you did or saw

      One day you can tell your grandchildren about this trip.

    • great-grandchild

      曾孫（曾孫子女）

      the child of your grandchild — one more step down the family tree

      Grandma Aisha now has two great-grandchildren.

core核心畫面

Think of three rows in a family: you, then your children, then their children. A grandchild is anyone standing in that third row, counted from where you stand — boy or girl, and from either your son's side or your daughter's side.

可以想成家族排成三排：你、你的小孩、再來是你小孩生的小孩。grandchild 就是站在第三排的那個人，而且是「從你這邊往下數」才這樣叫。英文在這裡比中文粗一格——不分男女，也不分是兒子那邊還是女兒那邊，孫子、孫女、外孫、外孫女通通是同一個字。

複數 grandchildren

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

grandchildnoun/ˈɡɹændˌtʃaɪld/

  • 1

    A child of someone's child.

    • ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.
    • Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

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