| 正面 | 2969.grandfather 英 ['græn(d)fɑːðə]美 ['græn'fɑðɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 飞离 => (飞离)逃走。2. 飞离即为逃走。n. 祖父；始祖vt. 不受新规定限制 例句： 1. He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.他坐在那儿，听着落地式大摆钟嘀嗒作响。 grandfather (n.)early 15c., from grand- + father (n.), probably on analogy of French grand-père. Replaced grandsire and Old English ealdefæder. Grandfather clause originally (1899) referred to exemptions from post-Reconstruction voting restrictions (literacy, property tax) in the U.S. South for men whose forebears had had the right to vote before 1867 (thus allowing poor and illiterate whites to continue to vote). Grandfather clock is from 1894, originally grandfather's clock (1876), "a furniture dealer's name" [OED] from "My Grandfather's Clock," the 1876 song by Henry Clay Work that was enormously popular (and loathed) in late 1870s. It indicates that they were beginning to seem old-fashioned; they were previously known as tall case clocks or eight-day clocks." |