1·Her maternal grandfather was mayor of Karachi.
她的外祖父曾是卡拉奇市的市长。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Mr Sarkozy, whose maternal grandfather was a Jew from Salonika, is the first French president born after the war.
萨科齐是第一位战后出生的法国总统,其外祖父是来自萨洛尼卡的犹太人。
3·Bruce Stephen honored my maternal grandfather, Benjamin Samuel Abeshouse, who had died three years before my birth.
布鲁斯·斯蒂芬这个名字就是为了纪念我的外祖父,本杰明·塞缪尔· 阿巴斯豪斯, 他在我出生的三年前就过世了。
4·My maternal grandfather and his four siblings, who in the 1940s each inherited what today would be millions of dollars.
我的外祖父和他的四个兄弟姐妹,他们在20世纪40年代每人继承了今天可能是数百万美元的遗产。
5·His maternal grandfather had been that Francisco Flores, of the Second Line-Infantry Division, who had died on the frontier of Buenos Aires.
他的外祖父是第二步兵师的弗朗西斯科·弗洛雷斯,死在布宜诺斯艾利斯的边境上。
6·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.
一个更稀奇的推测说,萨科奇先生对于其外祖父的祖国有一种天然的同情,他的外祖父是来自塞萨洛尼基的犹太人。
7·My maternal grandfather is coming.
我的外祖父要来了。
8·There seemed to be a word gene that passed down from her maternal grandfather.
从她的外祖父起,似乎就有个“文字基因”代代相传。
9·It was adopted, for example, by my maternal grandfather, who had a large number of romantic daughters.
比如说,这种方法就被我的外公采纳。他有很多天生浪漫的女儿。
10·Bruce Stephen honored my maternal grandfather, Benjamin "Bucky" Samuel Abeshouse, who had died three years before my birth.
布鲁斯·斯蒂芬这个名字就是为了纪念我的爷爷,本杰明。“巴克”塞缪尔·阿巴·斯豪斯。他在我出生的三年前就过世了。