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单词 aunt
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aunt
For instance, a quarter of the working parents reported using their children's aunts, and 10 per cent, their children's uncles when they were at work.
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She projects, from the start, an alternative lesson, and at the end she pronounces her pride in being like heraunt.
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In the cases of uncles and aunts, childlessness may often have been a factor.
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No uncle niece oraunt-nephew marriage was recorded.
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The neighbors of 'aunt' are ' uncle ', 'relative ' and ' relation'.
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Shortly after being hired, he constructed a thatched house of his own down the street from anaunt.
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Furthermore, other kin (parents, aunts and uncles, siblings, cousins, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews) of diverse ages are frequently cited as significant network members.
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Relationships with nieces or nephews tend to be infrequent and perfunctory unless anauntor uncle has been a surrogate parent.
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Theauntreciprocates her niece's call for complicity.
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Consider the following example, in which anauntis requesting her three-year-old nephew to talk.
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We may be generally reticent as to our uncles and aunts, and may drop even our brothers and sisters in our ordinary conversation.
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He immediately wakes in horror, realising that he has dreamed the tale of the count'saunt, and encountered, meanwhile, the voice belonging to the portrait.
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By contrast, there were a few aunts and grandmothers who played, usually temporarily, key caring roles, but to whom the child never became closely attached.
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Some aunts who were notable characters also played similarly powerful roles in their families.
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Certainly it was easiest when the grandmother orauntlived in the same house, but there were also striking instances when they lived close by.
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