祖父

As he departed for college, his grandfather, a former slave, waved goodbye with a three-fingered hand — the missing fingers had been severed as punishment for learning to read.

当他启程上学时，他的祖父，一位前奴隶，用一只只有三个手指的手向他挥舞送别——那些丢失的手指是作为学习阅读的惩罚而被切断的。

He waits.The arrow wants the target, his grandfather had said.

箭是渴望靶心的，祖父这么说过。

The young Aaron had been protected from Christianity, kept inside during Christian festivals and made aware that his grandfather had been a Yiddish-speaking rabbi in Silesia.

童年的亚伦被严密看护不让接近基督教，基督纪念日他会被关在家里。他这才知道他的祖父以前在西里西亚是个说意第绪语的犹太教拉比。

My grandfather learn shoe-make as an apprentice to ''.

我祖父跟一位大师傅当学徒，学会了制鞋

My uncle is a high school principal.

我祖父是一个小学校长。

Yet in rich countries, the incidence is growing—not least because of grandparents, now often a family's richest members, who wish to ring-fence property in favour of grandchildren, keeping it away from grasping in-laws.

然而，在富裕的国家，这种情况越来越为普遍——特别是因为家庭成员中最为富有的祖父们希望把财产留给自己的子孙们，以免流到了亲家的子女手中。

I heard my fourthgrandfather's martial arts were the best, he could continuetornado feet on the ridge of a tile house , turn a somersault andplant his two feet firmly on the ground.

听说我的四祖父功夫最好，可以在瓦房脊上连续打旋风脚，到头时一个空翻下来落地生根。

Its top executive, Andrea Perrone, whose grandfather co-founded the company, said that with luck, Brioni would be profitable this year.

安德雷亚E裴洛内是柏利欧尼的执行长，公司是他的祖父和别人合创的，他说，运气好的话，柏利欧尼今年可望获利。

That's when I saw that the grandfather's eyes were a milky white color - he was blind.

这就是当我看到祖父的眼睛是一个乳白色的颜色-他是双目失明。

"I want to move to Turin, the city of my Grandfather," said Pizarro.

&我希望到都灵踢球，这个居住过我祖父的城市。&

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