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foster-sister

养姐,养妹,寄养姐妹,养母

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a girl brought up with another child of different parents.

Examples

  • Critics accused Foster of giving Duke a payoff to stay out of the race; that was never proven.

  • A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.

  • At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.

  • Just a week after her divorce, she was invited to a wedding by her sister-in-law.

  • Kirke, the 23-year-old younger sister of Girls star Jemima Kirke, is a good example of that herself.

  • To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!

  • She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.

  • “My sister is passionately fond of children,” said the elder lady, in smiling apology.

  • In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.

  • A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.