maternal grandfather

基本解释

Mr Sarkozy, whose maternal grandfather was a Jew from Salonika, is the first French president born after the war.
萨科齐是第一位出生于二战后的法国总统，其外祖父是来自萨洛尼卡的犹太人。
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。
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生的同情，他的外祖父是来自希腊Thessaloniki的犹太人。

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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