Aunt
[ɑːnt] or [ænt]
解释:
(n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
(n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
(n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.
整理:默尔
解释:
n. a father's or a mother's sister—also the wife of one's uncle: (obs.) an old woman a gossip a procuress or bawd.—Aunt Sally a pastime at English fairs in which a wooden head is set on a pole and in the mouth a pipe which has to be smashed by throwing sticks or the like at it.
编辑:摩尔
娱乐性解释：
For a young woman to dream of seeing her aunt, denotes she will receive sharp censure for some action, which will cause her much distress. If this relative appears smiling and happy, slight difference will soon give way to pleasure.
爱德华整理
例句:
- Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- You and I shall quarrel, Naumann, if you call that lady my aunt again. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- They had told her that her aunt Shaw was coming; but she had not expressed either surprise or pleasure, or dislike to the idea. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- I want some money, you know, Aunt--some to buy little things for myself--and he doesn't give me any. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- I have never seen my aunt in such state. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Charlotte (the name of my false young friend) had gone down before me, and I heard this aunt speaking to her about me as I entered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- She saw nothing more of her uncle, nor of her aunt Norris, till they met at dinner. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Your knowledge of the world, dear aunt, is superior to mine, I suggested diffidently. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Do you mean Aunt March? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Fanny had indeed nothing to convey from aunt Norris, but a message to say she hoped that her god-daughter was a good girl, and learnt her book. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I am to understand that you forbid me to tell my aunt what has happened? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style, and making a formal call. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The aunt was a young woman, and she had a serious way with her eyes of watching me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Mrs. van der Luyden has driven over to see her old aunts at Rhinebeck and we shan't be missed at the house for another hour. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Dora, clinging to them both, and weeping, exclaimed, 'O yes, aunts! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I was wonderfully relieved to find that my aunt and Dora's aunts rubbed on, all things considered, much more smoothly than I could have expected. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- She was not in the drawing-room when I presented Agnes to her little aunts, but was shyly keeping out of the way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Sophy arrives at the house of Dora's aunts, in due course. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Oh--all my aunts? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- My aunt made her promised visit within a few days of the conference; and within a few more days, Dora's aunts called upon her, in due state and form. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- DORA'S AUNTS At last, an answer came from the two old ladies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Who are your uncles and aunts? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- If I couldn't bear her, why didn't I send her away to her aunts at Putney, or to Julia Mills in India? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Well, resumed Mr. Rochester, if you disown parents, you must have some sort of kinsfolk: uncles and aunts? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- They little think how much it comes to, or what their parents, or their uncles and aunts, pay for them in the course of the year. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- We still talk about humanity as if it were some strange and mystical creature which could not possibly be composed of the grocer, the street-car conductor and our aunts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- She was happy to see me so happy, and promised to call on Dora's aunts without loss of time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
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