half-sister
half-sister — 名詞
1. a female relative connected to you through just one birth parent — your mother o
半姊妹
僅有一位共同父母的姐妹
a female relative connected to you through just one birth parent — your mother or your father, not both
Takeshi grew up with his half-sister Yuki, who shares his father but not his mother.
Takeshi 和同父異母的妹妹 Yuki 一起長大，他們有同一個父親但母親不同。
paternal half-sister: same father, different mother
When Anong visited her father's new family, she met her half-sister for the first time.
Anong 去探望父親的新家庭時，第一次見到了自己的同父異母妹妹。
Darius and his half-sister Brooke discovered they had the same mother through a DNA test.
Darius 和他的同母異父妹妹 Brooke 透過 DNA 檢測發現他們有同一個母親。
Isabela asked her half-sister Anjali to be the maid of honor at her wedding.
Isabela 邀請她的同父異母妹妹 Anjali 在她的婚禮上擔任伴娘。
After the divorce, Leo's half-sister moved in with them every other weekend.
離婚後，Leo 的半姊妹每隔一週就會搬來和他們同住。
- stepsister
not a true synonym — a stepsister is unrelated by blood, whereas a half-sister shares one biological parent
- sister
a full sister shares both biological parents
用法筆記
Distinguish from stepsister: a half-sister is related by blood through one parent, whereas a stepsister has no blood relation — her parent married one of yours. Paternal half-sister (same father) and maternal half-sister (same mother) specify which side.