bob, bobsledder, in care

The enduring strength of Ms. Oesch’s accent is testament to the full life she lived even before she started her series of lives in New York. By the time she immigrated to New York from Switzerland, she was already 30, having lost a husband (an Olympic bobsledder) and a baby girl (who drowned while in the care of her grandparents).

bobsledder
n.n. - 大雪橇, 連橇賽, 連橇

1. A long racing sled with a steering mechanism controlling the front runners.
2. 1. A long sled made of two shorter sleds joined in tandem.
   2. Either of these two smaller sleds.

intr.v., -sled·ded, -sled·ding, -sleds.

To ride or race in or as if in a bobsled.

[BOB² + SLED.]

bob (MOVE) Show phonetics
verb -bb-
1 [I] to move up and down quickly and gently especially on the surface of water:
In the harbour, the boats bobbed gently up and down on the water.

2 [I usually + adverb or preposition; T] to move quickly in a particular direction:
I dropped the bottle into the sea and watched it bob up to the surface a moment later.
Suddenly a head bobbed up from behind the hedge.
She bobbed a curtsy (= bent down from the knees briefly at the knees as a sign of respect) to the Queen.

bob Show phonetics
noun [C] plural bobs
She acknowledged me with a quick bob of her head.



in care (ALSO take/put into care) UK
Children who are in care or who have been taken/put into care are not living with their natural parents but instead with a national or local government organization or another family:
Both children were taken into care when their parents died.