grandfather的意思

单词音标：

【音标】 ['grændfɑ:ðә]

汉语翻译

n. 祖父, 始祖
【电】 原始资料组

词型变化：

动词过去式:grandfathered 过去分词:grandfathered 现在分词:grandfathering 第三人称单数:grandfathers 

英语解释：

名词 grandfather:

1. the father of your father or mother同义词：gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa

例句：

1. When their grandfather died a great sadness filled their lives.当他们的祖父去世时，巨大的悲伤笼罩了他们的生活。
2. His grandfather is nearly seventy.他爷爷快七十岁了。
3. Although his grandfather was a nobleman, he was very poor.尽管他的祖父是贵族，他却非常穷困。
4. His grandfather gave her an earthenware bowl.他的祖父给了她一个陶碗。
5. A parent of one's mother or father; a grandmother or grandfather.祖父母，外祖父母某人母亲或父亲的父母; 祖母、外祖母或祖父、外祖父
6. Grandfather was in the trenches during the First War.在第一次世界大战中，我祖父驻守在法国北部前线。
7. My maternal grandfather is coming.我的外祖父要来了。
8. His grandfather passed away last year.他的祖父去年去世了。

详细解释：

grand.fa.ther

n.（名词）
The father of one`s mother or father.
祖父，外公：某人母亲或父亲的父亲
A forefather; an ancestor.
祖宗；远祖
Computer Science A stored file of data from which two successive files have been derived, used for comparison with or as a backup copy for the newer files.
【计算机科学】 原始文件，原始数据组，祖父：一个已衍生出两个连续文件的数据储存文件， 用于和新文件作比较或作为更新文件的备份
v.tr.（及物动词）
grand.fa.thered,grand.fa.ther.ing,grand.fa.thers
To exempt (one already involved in an activity or a business) from new regulations concerning that activity or business:
免受新法规限制：使（已涉入一项活动或事务中的人）排除在有关此种活动或事务的新法规之外：
例句：
The city passed an ordinance restricting the size of advertising signs, but grandfathered all those signs erected before 982.
该市通过了一项限制广告牌规格的法令，但那些在982 年以前竖起来的招牌免受限制


来源：
V., from grandfather clause
动词，源自 grandfather clause