elder sister

基本解釋

The accused's elder sister bailed her out of jail.
被告的姐姐把她保釋出獄。
Her elder sister Princess Beatrice, 20, also loves touring and spends just as much as her.
她20嵗的姐姐比阿特麗斯公主也同樣熱愛旅行，一樣花費驚人。
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That bound volume of Lett's diary has now followed the way of its elder sister, the blue manuscript book, leaving no address behind.
這本裝有封皮的的李特式日記，也追隨其姊姊---藍色練習簿---的腳步，散失了，沒有畱下任何地址。

It would seem that the Elder Brother and his sister were way too optimistic in their assessment of the protected status of the virtuous poet and the protected status of the virgin, the favored role of the poet. Virginity does nothing.
似乎《科瑪斯》中哥哥和他的妹妹認爲,貞潔的詩人，未失童真的詩人自然會受到保護,的想法太過樂觀了，貞潔無能爲力。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
Now to the extent that this discussion is actually about the virginity of the Second Brother and the Elder Brother's sister, it seems, I think, to border on the ridiculous; but the debate, I think, we have to take seriously.
後來這兄弟倆談?wù)摰膶ο?轉(zhuǎn)到了自己的妹妹的貞潔的時候，就顯得有點愚蠢了;,但我覺得這段辯論應(yīng)儅好好研究。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

The grave of Mr Godwin's elder sister, shot dead in the independence war, becomes a slum-dwellers' toilet.
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