曾祖父母

If one asks the average English-educated Chinese Singaporean to name his great-grandparents and their siblings, it is probable that he would be unable to do so.

你若问一个普通的英语源流新加坡华人，他的曾祖父母和他们兄弟姐妹的姓名是什么，相信他会答不上来。

"If one asks the average English-educated Chinese Singaporean to name his great-grandparents and their siblings , it is probable that he would be unable to do so."

你若问一个普通的受英语教育的新加坡华人，他的曾祖父母和他们兄弟姐妹的姓名是什么，相信他会答不上来。

Next to his picture were photos of my great-grandparents, Ellis Island immigrants.

旁边的照片是当年踏上埃利斯岛，移民到美国来的曾祖父母。

It is to your great-grandparents on Iowa and Texas farms who, despite grade-school educations and little money, managed to send their children to college so they could have a better life.

这是欠你在爱荷华州和德克萨斯州农场上生活过的曾祖父母的债。尽管他们只接受过小学教育，也没什么积蓄，但还是想法设法送孩子们去上大学，为的是让他们过上更好的生活。

But YOU are likely to be taller than your grandparents and great-grandparents.

但您可能比你的祖父母和曾祖父母更高。

People had more children,and grandparents and great-grandparents lived with their families.

人们孩子很多，祖父母和曾祖父母都和家人在一起生活。

My great-grandparents believed that, and my grandparents, and so do I.

曾祖父母相信，祖父母相信，我也相信。

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。

He spoke of my parents and my grandparents, but only the names were familiar, for as Steenie spoke of them they were unrecognizable to me.

他跟我的父母还有曾祖父母聊天，只是他们说的事情我都不清楚，只有那些人名是熟悉的。

There are many ways in which our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents have erred.

我们的父母，祖父母，曾祖父母曾在许多方面犯了错误。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。