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)后的法國總統(tǒng)，其外祖父是來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.斯蒂芬這個名字就是為了紀念我的爺爺，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.
一個更稀奇的推測說，薩科奇先生對于其外祖父的祖國有一種天生的同情，他的外祖父是來自希臘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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