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单词 nephew
释义
nephewneph‧ew /ˈnefjuː, ˈnev- $ ˈnef-/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINnephew
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French neveu, from Latin nepos ‘grandson, nephew’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And indeed no one-not one of her children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren or nephews or nieces-could ever remember seeing Maria ill.
  • His nephew told him to take a walk, get lost in the crowd.
  • It was nearly twenty-six years before he saw his nephew again.
  • Morrison said she sent her niece and a nephew to see if anything had reached shore, but they saw nothing.
  • Must know his job else Riddle wouldn't have kept him, nephew or no nephew.
  • Rilla Challiss, married to Amelia Otis's nephew James, also thought it a mistake.
  • Uncle and nephew knelt shoulder to shoulder, hands cupped, heads bowed in the simple position of submission.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I know where I would feel safer taking my nine-year-old nephew to.
· We heard from Mr Edgar that his sister had died, and that he was returning soon with his young nephew.· But the Earl's followers - and among them was his young nephew William Marshal - told a very different story.· Where was Tsu Ma's strapping young nephew?
the son of your brother or sister, or the son of your husband’s or wife’s brother or sisterniece, uncle, aunt
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