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单词 babushka
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Definition of babushka in English:

babushka

noun bəˈbʊʃkəˈbabʊʃˌkəbəˈbʊʃkə
  • 1(in Russia) an old woman or grandmother.

    (俄罗斯)老婆婆;祖母

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas?
    • I visited one babushka's home to monitor the use of mobile ballot boxes.
    • Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well.
    • They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style.
    • Standing behind them was Ivan, Andrei and Alexis and at the front, sitting in front of father and Nadeja was Natalia and I, both dressed in our best white muslin dresses that our babushka had bought us.
    • However, I found the perennial Russian babushkas, old ladies who usually chat on the benches, and they pointed out the library, which is small and unimposing.
    • What makes these protests potentially more powerful than those of 1998 is that so many Russian families have a pensioner - often a beloved babushka caring for the grandchildren.
    • The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions.
    • A babushka, very well dressed and apparently well off (these are the worst kind), decided that it was her duty to inform me that I shouldn't smoke.
    • Kaliningrad is still garrisoned by a shadowy regiment of these babushkas, left over from a time when it was illegal not to work.
    • Grumans serves all the Old World deli favourites, but out of loyalty I have to say that, while the food was great, it was only almost as good as my babushka's cooking.
    • The only thing more Russian than bortsch and babushkas is - uh, rock 'n' roll?
    • The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects.
    • Although we adored staying with our dedushka and babushka, it was too near our own home for us to be comfortable.
    • At the same time though I feel like telling them, this idea is not far wrong, the only difference being that all the bears are dead and draped over the shoulders of big boisterous Russian babushkas.
    • In 1989, I walked into a church near Boris Pasternak's dacha and heard priests and babushkas reciting the litany with perfect recall as if seventy-two years of repression had never happened.
    • This said, they turn their backs on the bewildered babushka and ride off.
    • At other times he acts like a bold market reformer, risking the ire of babushkas from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok by cutting popular communist-era benefits such as free transportation and medicine for retirees and veterans.
    • Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy.
    • My babushka was called Ceceila, an unusual name in Russia.
    Synonyms
    grandma, granny
    1. 1.1North American A headscarf tied under the chin, typical of those traditionally worn by Russian women.
      〈北美〉婆婆头巾(在颏下打结的头巾,尤指俄罗斯妇女戴的头巾)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Headscarves, kerchiefs, but not babushkas are definitely in.
      • Now ladies, I'm not saying we should all follow our bubbies and throw on a babushka - I'm just saying, sometimes a little cover up goes a long way.
      • The movie opens with a scrupulously framed shot of the peasant woman Ermo, wrapped in her dull yellow babushka, hawking twisted noodles at the outskirts of an unnamed northern Chinese village.
      • I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them.
      • The platform on which the Yanobe figure stood was rimmed with photos of the artist posing in Chernobyl with children, older women in babushkas, or in a church or an abandoned house.
      • This headcovering is often referred to as a babushka, named after the Russian word for ‘grandmother.’
      • Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively.
      • There is little for them to do apart from watch terns nesting on window sills, feed the 45-year-old bull on Russian hay, sell babushkas to tourists in the hope of US dollars and visit the (usually closed) museum.
      • Top hats, bowlers and gem-encrusted crowns are all considered ‘clean’, while babushkas, fedoras and coon-skin hats are all regarded as ‘filthy’.
      • She wears sunglasses and a babushka and smokes cigarettes through a long plastic filter that looks like a pipe stem.
      • The NATO bombing also produced imagery that performs a phantasmatic imaginary, an epic Hollywood film where mighty men and high-tech bombing machines save Kosovar women in babushkas and elderly Albanians in wheelbarrows.
      • Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims.
      • Directly across the car from me, next to an old woman with a gaudy cabbage rose print babushka over thinning white hair, is a young man I cannot take my eyes off of for long.

Origin

Russian, 'grandmother'.

Definition of babushka in US English:

babushka

nounbəˈbo͝oSHkəbəˈbʊʃkə
  • 1(in Poland and Russia) an old woman or grandmother.

    (俄罗斯)老婆婆;祖母

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the same time though I feel like telling them, this idea is not far wrong, the only difference being that all the bears are dead and draped over the shoulders of big boisterous Russian babushkas.
    • They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style.
    • This said, they turn their backs on the bewildered babushka and ride off.
    • Kaliningrad is still garrisoned by a shadowy regiment of these babushkas, left over from a time when it was illegal not to work.
    • The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects.
    • The only thing more Russian than bortsch and babushkas is - uh, rock 'n' roll?
    • Standing behind them was Ivan, Andrei and Alexis and at the front, sitting in front of father and Nadeja was Natalia and I, both dressed in our best white muslin dresses that our babushka had bought us.
    • Although we adored staying with our dedushka and babushka, it was too near our own home for us to be comfortable.
    • What makes these protests potentially more powerful than those of 1998 is that so many Russian families have a pensioner - often a beloved babushka caring for the grandchildren.
    • A babushka, very well dressed and apparently well off (these are the worst kind), decided that it was her duty to inform me that I shouldn't smoke.
    • The children continued their swimming exercises in the pond, and the babushkas proceeded with their grave and slow discussions about their grandchildren, prices, and pensions.
    • Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy.
    • Grumans serves all the Old World deli favourites, but out of loyalty I have to say that, while the food was great, it was only almost as good as my babushka's cooking.
    • Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well.
    • Shouldn't we give up the nervous fingering of the beads of the grandmas and the babushkas?
    • In 1989, I walked into a church near Boris Pasternak's dacha and heard priests and babushkas reciting the litany with perfect recall as if seventy-two years of repression had never happened.
    • However, I found the perennial Russian babushkas, old ladies who usually chat on the benches, and they pointed out the library, which is small and unimposing.
    • At other times he acts like a bold market reformer, risking the ire of babushkas from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok by cutting popular communist-era benefits such as free transportation and medicine for retirees and veterans.
    • My babushka was called Ceceila, an unusual name in Russia.
    • I visited one babushka's home to monitor the use of mobile ballot boxes.
    Synonyms
    grandma, granny
    1. 1.1North American A headscarf tied under the chin, typical of those worn by Polish and Russian women.
      〈北美〉婆婆头巾(在颏下打结的头巾,尤指俄罗斯妇女戴的头巾)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The platform on which the Yanobe figure stood was rimmed with photos of the artist posing in Chernobyl with children, older women in babushkas, or in a church or an abandoned house.
      • She wears sunglasses and a babushka and smokes cigarettes through a long plastic filter that looks like a pipe stem.
      • Now ladies, I'm not saying we should all follow our bubbies and throw on a babushka - I'm just saying, sometimes a little cover up goes a long way.
      • Directly across the car from me, next to an old woman with a gaudy cabbage rose print babushka over thinning white hair, is a young man I cannot take my eyes off of for long.
      • The movie opens with a scrupulously framed shot of the peasant woman Ermo, wrapped in her dull yellow babushka, hawking twisted noodles at the outskirts of an unnamed northern Chinese village.
      • The NATO bombing also produced imagery that performs a phantasmatic imaginary, an epic Hollywood film where mighty men and high-tech bombing machines save Kosovar women in babushkas and elderly Albanians in wheelbarrows.
      • I even got permission from some little old ladies, babushkas and all, to have my picture taken with them.
      • Women may wear peasant babushkas on their heads, and men may wear hats with floppy brims.
      • There is little for them to do apart from watch terns nesting on window sills, feed the 45-year-old bull on Russian hay, sell babushkas to tourists in the hope of US dollars and visit the (usually closed) museum.
      • This headcovering is often referred to as a babushka, named after the Russian word for ‘grandmother.’
      • Top hats, bowlers and gem-encrusted crowns are all considered ‘clean’, while babushkas, fedoras and coon-skin hats are all regarded as ‘filthy’.
      • Still panting, Ermo slowly removes her babushka and the many layers of her winter clothing, as a perplexed Xiazi looks on passively.
      • Headscarves, kerchiefs, but not babushkas are definitely in.

Origin

Russian, ‘grandmother’.

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