外公

I let you study with your cousins' private tutor at your grandfather Kao's house.

我不曾要你缠过脚，小时候就让你到你外公家跟表兄弟们一起读书。

I was standing by his rosebush when an uncle came to tell me that my grandfather had died.

站在老人栽的玫瑰花旁，舅舅告诉我说外公走了。

When he returned from several weeks in the hospital,he wanted his bed next to the window,where he could see his beloved rosebush.

一年半以后，外公身患重病，在医院住了几周后回到家，他让家人把床靠近窗台，那儿他可以看到他心爱的玫瑰。

I like what grandpa calls something savoury.

我喜欢外公所说的美味可口的食物。

For what,I sometimes wonder;so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength,and then die of self-poisoning,as her grandfather did?

有时我纳闷：自己这样做到底是为了什么？难道是为了她今后大半辈子有气无力地挣扎着呼吸，然后再像她外公那样自己把自己毒死？

He slipped his own knife from its sheath, cut a thin, succulent branch from a tree and sat beside me.

外公抽出自己那把刀，砍下一根细嫩的树枝坐在我身旁。

He picked the whole morning in a suit and shoeshine ...... After a child, neat clothes, and shoes polished, and maternal grandfather had started combing their hair.

他整个上午都在挑西装、擦皮鞋……过了一会儿，衣服穿整齐了，皮鞋也擦亮了，外公开始梳头发了。

I am a very traditional person, I want marriage single-mindedness, I imagine my grandfather and grandmother, more than 60 years as husband and wife, It's few in today's real society.

我是一个很传统的人，我想要的婚姻是从一而终的，我想像我外公和外婆那样六十多年的夫妻，在如今这个物质横欲的社会已经屈指可数了！

Grandpa:②Don't be such a smart aleck, Alan.

外公：别自作聪明了，艾伦。

I love grandpa' and Mrs. Monks, at Southampton.""

我爱外公，我爱住在南安普敦的蒙克斯夫人。""

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失