maternal grandmother

基本解释

My maternal grandmother had a stroke in October.
十月份我的外祖母患了中风。
Parson said genetic material from scrapings from the skull was analyzed and compared to DNA samples gathered in 2004 from the thigh bones of Mozart's maternal grandmother and a niece.
帕森说，他们首先分析了从头骨上刮下的碎屑中的遗传物质，之后将分析结果与已有的DNA样本进行对比，已有的DNA样本是2004年从莫扎特的外祖母和侄女的大腿骨上提取的。
My maternal grandmother had told me the story of a relative dating from the nineteenth century: a young woman fresh from Ireland a Catholic who'd married a Protestant.
我的外祖母曾告诉我一个亲戚的故事，那是19世纪的事情了：一位刚刚从爱尔兰来的年轻女子，她是位天主教徒，刚刚嫁给了一个新教徒。

She and her parents had an opportunity to go to Australia earlier, but decided against it because her maternal grandmother still lives in Myanmar.
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His maternal grandmother was Ruth Khumalo, and as her name would inextricably connect her to the roots of her tribe, her life would mirror its descent into the madness of postwar South Africa.
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