英语词汇“aunt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINaunt

Origin:

1200-1300 Old French ante, from Latin amita

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.
I have stated earlier my aunt was a determined and ambitious woman.
Jerome has an aunt and uncle in Laguna Hills and some relatives in South Dakota.
My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album.
So my aunt talked three friends into skating down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
The aunt was a prime ally.
The Dodson aunts take pride in his stance in this hour of crisis.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► elderly

· A great many people love their elderly Parent or aunt sufficiently to want to look after them.· Instinctively we knew that terrible things were going to happen in our elderly aunts peaceful living room.

► great

· I had no brother or sister and spent my holidays with my great aunt in the Isle of Wight.· We could smoke and no great aunt would smell us and croak.· My great aunt used to sit in her weekly bath, scrubbing the household washing.· I had a great aunt in Arbourville.· All very well, as one's great aunt might say, for those who like that sort of thing.

► maiden

· When he was eighteen months old, the family broke up, his care passing to a maiden aunt.· Shorting is not for maiden aunts.· The maiden aunt who was invited to Walsingham House arrived in a four-wheeler.· The man of letters and the maiden aunt.· Your aupair may be a born maiden aunt.

► old

· Not them, nor the dress, nor the old aunts and uncles, nothing like that.· Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty.

NOUN► agony

· While writing her agony aunt column, she remained busy as a reporter, interviewing figures including Margaret Thatcher.· Being agony aunt was tricky and probably quite beyond her.· I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt.· In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony aunt pages of a magazine.· Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of.· He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces.· Claire Rayner is a novelist, broadcaster and agony aunt.

VERB► live

· Conradin's parents were dead and he lived with his aunt.· We used to live with my aunt but then it got too crowded there so we moved out.· And so I was left to live alone with my aunt.· Reprehensible as the crime was, the girls were put on a train to Minneapolis to live with an aunt.· So we went to live with my aunt in Tembisa, a township in the East Rand.· He discovered that her name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that she lived with her aunt, Mrs Hurst.· Her parents are dead, so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children.

► remember

· Look how he's remembered your aunt.· I remember that my aunts thereafter decided that only cousins could come to our birthday parties.· I remember two aunts and an uncle, all very dear to me, dying within a few months.· This was the only time I could remember my aunt being right about anything.

► stay

· In the meantime, I've arranged for her daughter to stay with an aunt.· He stayed with his aunt and uncle.· I was going to stay with my aunt.

► visit

· We were going to visit my aunt and uncle who have lived there for the past five years.· The next morning Lord Henry went to visit his aunt, Lady Agatha.· She leaves to visit her aunt Gritty Moss; but he calls on her there, again pleading his love for her.· You shall visit your aunt and uncle.· Seth Bede walks with Dinah back to Hall Farm, where she is visiting her aunt.· Take up walking to the shops or school. 4. Visit my ageing aunt. 5.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► great-grandfather/great-grandmother/great-aunt/great-uncle► maternal grandfather/aunt etc

He inherited the honorary title from his maternal grandfather, William Harold Pearson.
Her background was middle-class, cultured, my maternal grandfather being a rabbi.
We are to christen this child Pilade, being the name of Ferdinando's maternal grandfather whom he wishes to honour.

► my sainted aunt!

单词	aunt
释义	auntaunt /ɑːnt $ ænt/ ●●● S3 W3 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINaunt Origin: 1200-1300 Old French ante, from Latin amita Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Clayton was adopted by his aunt and uncle and brought up in the working class brewery town of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. I have stated earlier my aunt was a determined and ambitious woman. Jerome has an aunt and uncle in Laguna Hills and some relatives in South Dakota. My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album. So my aunt talked three friends into skating down the Mississippi to New Orleans. The aunt was a prime ally. The Dodson aunts take pride in his stance in this hour of crisis. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► elderly · A great many people love their elderly Parent or aunt sufficiently to want to look after them.· Instinctively we knew that terrible things were going to happen in our elderly aunts peaceful living room. ► great · I had no brother or sister and spent my holidays with my great aunt in the Isle of Wight.· We could smoke and no great aunt would smell us and croak.· My great aunt used to sit in her weekly bath, scrubbing the household washing.· I had a great aunt in Arbourville.· All very well, as one's great aunt might say, for those who like that sort of thing. ► maiden · When he was eighteen months old, the family broke up, his care passing to a maiden aunt.· Shorting is not for maiden aunts.· The maiden aunt who was invited to Walsingham House arrived in a four-wheeler.· The man of letters and the maiden aunt.· Your aupair may be a born maiden aunt. ► old · Not them, nor the dress, nor the old aunts and uncles, nothing like that.· Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty. NOUN► agony · While writing her agony aunt column, she remained busy as a reporter, interviewing figures including Margaret Thatcher.· Being agony aunt was tricky and probably quite beyond her.· I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt.· In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony aunt pages of a magazine.· Then he sat down and typed a letter to every agony aunt he had ever heard of.· He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces.· Claire Rayner is a novelist, broadcaster and agony aunt. VERB► live · Conradin's parents were dead and he lived with his aunt.· We used to live with my aunt but then it got too crowded there so we moved out.· And so I was left to live alone with my aunt.· Reprehensible as the crime was, the girls were put on a train to Minneapolis to live with an aunt.· So we went to live with my aunt in Tembisa, a township in the East Rand.· He discovered that her name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that she lived with her aunt, Mrs Hurst.· Her parents are dead, so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children. ► remember · Look how he's remembered your aunt.· I remember that my aunts thereafter decided that only cousins could come to our birthday parties.· I remember two aunts and an uncle, all very dear to me, dying within a few months.· This was the only time I could remember my aunt being right about anything. ► stay · In the meantime, I've arranged for her daughter to stay with an aunt.· He stayed with his aunt and uncle.· I was going to stay with my aunt. ► visit · We were going to visit my aunt and uncle who have lived there for the past five years.· The next morning Lord Henry went to visit his aunt, Lady Agatha.· She leaves to visit her aunt Gritty Moss; but he calls on her there, again pleading his love for her.· You shall visit your aunt and uncle.· Seth Bede walks with Dinah back to Hall Farm, where she is visiting her aunt.· Take up walking to the shops or school. 4. Visit my ageing aunt. 5. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► great-grandfather/great-grandmother/great-aunt/great-uncle► maternal grandfather/aunt etc He inherited the honorary title from his maternal grandfather, William Harold Pearson. Her background was middle-class, cultured, my maternal grandfather being a rabbi. We are to christen this child Pilade, being the name of Ferdinando's maternal grandfather whom he wishes to honour. ► my sainted aunt! the sister of your father or mother, or the wife of your father’s or mother’s brother: Aunt Mary → agony aunt
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