maternal grandfather

基本解釋

Mr Sarkozy, whose maternal grandfather was a Jew from Salonika, is the first French president born after the war.
薩科齊是第一位出生于二戰(zhàn)后的法國(guó)總統(tǒng)，其外祖父是來(lái)自薩洛尼卡的猶太人。
Bruce Stephen honored my maternal grandfather, Benjamin “Bucky” Samuel Abeshouse, who had died three years before my birth.
布魯斯.斯蒂芬這個(gè)名字就是為了紀(jì)念我的爺爺，本杰明. "巴克”塞繆爾. 阿巴斯豪斯。他在我出生的三年前就過(guò)世了。
A more fanciful theory is that Mr Sarkozy has a natural sympathy for the country that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Jew from Thessaloniki.
一個(gè)更稀奇的推測(cè)說(shuō)，薩科奇先生對(duì)于其外祖父的祖國(guó)有一種天生的同情，他的外祖父是來(lái)自希臘Thessaloniki的猶太人。

Mrs Johnson Sirleaf inherited her light skin colour from her maternal grandfather, a German trader.
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She liked to talk about her maternal grandfather who, she said, taught her classical philosophy.
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My maternal grandfather came to Plymouth from Italy a century ago to work in what was then a bustling industrial center.
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