查询词典 The Grandfather

When my grandfather Denton built it, it was the acme of fashion.

我的祖父Denton造这所房子时，这里可以算作是时尚的尖端。

In the words of grandfather, this is a many afterbirth son.

用爷爷的话说，这是个多胞子。

This twin brother's grandfather was Numi Tuo, he is Alban mountains southeast of Rome, the king of Alba countries.

这对孪生兄弟的祖父是努米托，他是罗马东南部阿尔班山区阿尔巴国的国王。

He had also been brought up in a house that was both devout and cosmopolitan: encouraged to read European magazines, to devour Dickens and Dostoyevsky, to listen to Mozart and Janis Joplin, as well as to get involved in Nahdlatul Ulama, the world's largest Muslim organisation, heavily rural and steeped in animist Javanese tradition, which his grandfather had founded and his father had run.

他成长于一个既虔诚又开放的家庭：鼓励阅读欧洲杂志，大量阅读狄更斯和陀思妥耶夫斯基作品，听莫扎特和詹尼斯·乔普林，同时也鼓励加入伊斯兰教士联合会，该组织是世界上最大的穆斯林组织，具有浓重的乡土色彩并深植于爪哇万物有灵论的传统，该组织由他的祖父组织创建，他的父亲运营。

And this is a lesson which I suspect you must have learnt out of Homer; for he, speaking of Autolycus, the maternal grandfather of Odysseus, who is a favourite of his, affirms that 'He was excellent above all men in theft and perjury.

我怀疑你是否从荷马那里接受了如下的教益；他曾谈到他所偏爱的奥德修斯的外祖父奥托利克斯，断言'他在盗窃和伪誓方面具有人所不能企及的天赋'。

On abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not.

当他从外祖父的见解转到父亲的见解时，他总以为自己已经站稳了，现在却又怀疑起来，感到自己并不稳，他心里苦闷，不敢自信。

Had a grandfather who owned an Axminster, a twelve-seater flying carpet that the whole family could ride on.

祖父：巴蒂·克劳奇有一个祖父，他拥有阿克明斯特的足够全家十二人座的飞毯。

Ali thinks there's a niche in the market for a family vehicle', said Mr. Crouch.'I remember my grandfather had an Axminster that could seat twelve - but that was before carpets were banned, of course.'"

"'阿里认为在家庭交通工具的市场上有空可钻，'克劳奇先生说，'我记得我的祖父当年有一条阿克斯明斯特绒头地毯，上面可以坐十二个人——不过，当然啦，那是在飞毯被禁之前。'"

My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he was too old to continue his business, when he retired to Banbury, in Oxfordshire, to the house of his son John, with whom my father served an apprenticeship.

我的祖父汤麦斯生于一五九八年，他住在爱克腾，直到他老了而无法继续工作，那时他便和他的儿子约翰一起住在牛津的彭白雷村，而我的父亲跟着他做学徒，我的叔父死在那，也葬在那。

Confused by the discrepancy between his statement and another that my grandmother had made to me with equal emphasis, I asked my grandfather if Bolivar was greater than Jesus Christ.

然而外祖母跟我讲过另一种说法，讲的时候也用了同样的强调态度；这两种说法彼此矛盾，让我迷惑不解。我就问外祖父玻利瓦尔是否比耶稣基督更伟大。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。