grandparents

On Sunday afternoons we would get together at my grandparents' house, and sooner or later someone would pull out a guitar and start singing.

周末的下午，全家人都会齐聚在外祖父家，然后就会有人不自觉地拿出吉他弹唱起来。

She did not own a car and she was rarely able to visit her grandparents who lived far away.

她没有自己的车，也很少去看望她的祖父祖母。

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren.

祖父母就如同一条细绳子一样触手可及，并能轻而易举就缠住儿孙们的手指。

"It's the only place in your home you can have privacy, " he said. "A lot of people still live with their grandparents and parents. "

他说：“这是你在家里唯一的拥有隐私的地方，许多人现在仍然和他们的父母和祖父祖母住在一起。”

Look on the bright side. We were never daft enough, it seems, to pay the kind of prices for stocks our great-grandparents did.

从乐观的角度想一想：我们似乎从来没有傻到像自己的曾祖辈那样，支付过高的股价。

Perhaps you had a lot of contact with your grandparents as a child, or you see them on a very regular basis.

这可能是因为在你小时候和他们有很多接触的缘故，或是在你们经常见面的基础上。

She said that she also saw elderly Palestinians being humiliated on the streets, "and I thought these could be my parents or grandparents" .

她说自己还在大街上看到年长的巴勒斯坦人被自己的部队侮辱，“当时，我觉得这些长者也可能是我的父母或者祖父母。”

When her grandparents took her to the same store, Bella headed for the toy section, but not when she was with her parents.

当爷爷奶奶带它去这家商店时，Bella会径直跑到玩具部。

But I think of my grandchildren back home, and all I want is for those kids to be able to see their own grandparents for the first time.

但我也想念家里的孙儿们，同时我也希望，那些失明的孩子能够平生第一次亲眼见到各自的祖父母。

In recent years, we don't often get a chance to visit our grandparents. They live so far away. We get to see them once in a blue moon.

最近几年，我们很少有机会去看望祖父母。他们住的太远了，见一面真有千载难逢之感。

There was no child that did not know her grandparents, her great - grandparents, and their parent and grand- parents before them.

没有一个孩子不知道他们的祖父母、曾祖父母，曾祖父母的父母以及他们的祖父母。

When I was a child, three of my grandparents, one widowed grandmother and a pair of grandparents, lived with us in our house.

在我小时候，我寡居的姥姥和爷爷奶奶三位老人与我们住在一起。

He was born in a poor family, but his grandparents took good care of him when he was young.

他出生于一个贫穷的家庭，但他的祖父母在照顾好他，他是年轻的。

My grandparents believed you were either honest or you weren't. there was no between.

我的阿公母以为，你要么诚笃，要么不诚笃，没有中间道路可选。

She had many problems at home, and recently her grandparents had come to stay with her family.

在家里，她遇到许多麻烦。最近，她祖父母住进了她家。

But out of sight of his white friends, mother, and grandparents, Barry struggled to understand what being African-American meant.

但是，在看不见他的白人朋友，母亲，外祖父母的时候，巴里就苦苦挣扎于到底非洲裔美国人意味着什么。

30 years ago, my grandparents never imaged that they would be able to move into a two-store house decorated with modern facilities.

30年前，我的祖父母根本想不到他们能搬进一栋有现代设施的二层小楼里住。

It would be like you recovering genes of your grandparents that your parents did not have.

就好比是你可以恢复你的祖父母具有的基因，而你的父母没有这些基因。

Your grandparents have different understanding of it when they call it "a opportunity. "

你的祖父母对卖汉堡包有着不同的理解，他们称之为“机遇”。

It belonged to my other set of grandparents and is an old torpedo shell converted into a lamp.

它来自于我的外祖父母，是用旧的鱼雷壳改装而成的。