单词 | sister-in-law |
释义 | sister-in-lawWord family nounsisterhoodsisterlinesssistersister-in-lawadjectivesisteringsisterlesssisterlikesisterly Familyˈsister-in-ˌlaw ●●○ noun (plural sisters-in-law) [countableC] 1. SSFthe sister of your husband or wife 丈夫[妻子]的姊妹;姑子;姨子 2. SSFyour brother’s wife 兄长[弟弟]的妻子;嫂子;弟媳 3. SSWthe wife of the brother of your husband or wife 配偶的兄弟之妻;妯娌;舅嫂 Examples from the Corpus sister-in-law• The warmth which sisters and sisters-in-law may show for one another can cushion a woman against the harshness of her life.• When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her.• Her sister-in-law, on the other hand, has been more of an extrovert.• His contemporaries believed he made his sister-in-law take out substantial life insurance and then poisoned her.• Rumour had it that Gaunt had poisoned his sister-in-law in order to gain possession of the whole of the inheritance.• This was the period of her last obsessive attachment, to Véra Oumançoff, sister-in-law of the philosopher Jacques Maritain. |
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