granddaddy
- n.(某事物的)老祖宗,祖师爷
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Granddaddy was born in a house , not a hospital .
爷爷出生在一个房子里,不是医院里。
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Called this granddaddy the tree of life .
把这颗树叫作生命之树。
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These features allow AFS to be known as the granddaddy of distributed file systems even after so many years of development .
这些特性使得AFS被公认为是分布式文件系统的鼻祖,虽然AFS已经开发了很多年。
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My granddaddy got stories about that woman .
我爷爷知道那女人的一些事情。
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The archetypal tax haven , and in many ways the granddaddy of them all .
典型的避税天堂,而且在许多方面对他们所有的鼻祖。
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Think of syphilis as the granddaddy of sexually transmitted diseases ( STDs ) .
论及梅毒,这可是性传播疾病的祖师爷。
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As for the granddaddy of entitlements , Social Security , the time has come to increase the age for payments to70 .
至于待遇,社会保障,时间已经到了鼻祖增加了70金的年龄。
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ICBC , the sector granddaddy , was up by more than a fifth .
行业老大中国工商银行(ICBC)的股价涨幅超过五分之一。
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That 's why my granddaddy is not scared of dying .
我爷爷因此而不惧怕死亡。
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Then there 's the granddaddy of all threats to just about any future economic arrangement : the untold effects and consequences of climate change .
接下来就是气候变化的作用和影响,所有威胁今后几乎任何经济举措的因素都源于此,而且这个问题说不清道不明。
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Some of the best food I have eaten has been produced by small restaurants offering the granddaddy of fusion cuisine , Macanese .
我吃过的一些最好吃的食物,是提供最古老的融合菜(fusioncuisine)澳门菜的小餐厅做的。
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The ancient granddaddy of advanced memory techniques is the method of Loci , which involves placing objects in sequential order in a mentally constructed ( imaginary ) world .
古代老祖宗使用的高级记忆法就是位置记忆法/轨迹法,其中包括记忆对象的排列顺序和虚构的空间想象结构。
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The granddaddy of all unusable fonts .
这是所有不适用的字体的鼻祖。
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As he 's said in the past , too , " Tetris is the granddaddy of puzzle games like Candy Crush saga - the things that keep us puzzling away for hours , days and weeks . "
他过去也曾经说过:“俄罗斯方块是《糖果粉碎传奇》(CandyCrushSaga)这类益智游戏的鼻祖。这些游戏让我们连续几个小时,几天、甚至几个星期沉迷其中,不能自拔。”