单词 | half-brother |
释义 | half-brother [In ME. from c 1300; cf. Ger. halbbruder, ON. halfbróðir.] A brother by one parent only, a brother of the half-blood.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 121 Roberd went hir with, Malde's half broþer. c1475Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 690/13 Hic germanus, a halfebrodyre. 1641Termes de la Ley 108 They are termed halfe brothers, or brothers of the halfe bloud. 1715–20Pope Iliad xiv. 265 And seeks the cave of Death's half-brother, Sleep. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 224 He is my half brother, the son of my mother, but not of my father. |

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