1.祖父或祖母
1.the mother or father of your mother or father. You are their grandchild.
1.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。
2.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。
3.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。
4."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。”
5.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。
6.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。
7.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。”
8.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。
9.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。
10.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。