The villagers still follow the customs of their grandfathers .

村民们仍然遵从他们祖先的习俗。

He takes for granted the telephone, the railway train, the linotype, the airplane, as our grandfathers took for granted the miracles of the gospels.

他把电话、火车、铸造排字机、飞机都看作自然而然的事情,就像我们的祖父一代将福音书里的奇迹故事视为理所当然一样。

The step back into the spotlight makes it seem, in some strange way, as if they had never really been away.Except that now, instead of looking like the fathers of modern pop bands, they look a little more like the grandfathers

他们重新成为公众注意的中心,似乎以各种奇怪的方式让人们觉得他们从没有真正离开过乐坛,只是现在他们看上去不像现代流行音乐乐队的父辈而更像他们的祖辈了。

The children who had bought picture books from him were now fathers and grandfathers .

曾经向他买过图画书的孩子们现在已经儿孙满堂了。

The gold watch has been handed on to us by our great grandfathers

这块金表是祖先传给我们的。

These are the inventions that our grandfathers never dreamt of

这些是我们的祖父辈们从未想到的发明。

"This meat is delicious, it's tender and it's very, very nice meat for men. Even in, even in the old days, like our grandfathers , if they slaughter a cow, the cow head it was only for men."

“这种肉很好吃，它很鲜嫩，男人吃了大补。即使是在过去，像我们的祖辈如果宰了一头牛，牛头都只给男人吃。”

||1:WHEN “the chips are down”, David Cameron declared on a visit to Washington last year, Britain and America know that they can always count on each other.||2:Standing beside Barack Obama on a sun-drenched White House lawn, Britain's prime minister invoked the memory of their respective grandfathers , serving in the same campaign to drive Hitler's forces from France.||3:The message was clear.Seven decades on, when the British need to claim a special relationship with America, nothing approaches the second world war's talismanic power.

||1:去年，卡梅伦在访问华盛顿时说：在“危急时刻”，英美两国明白，双方总是可以互相信赖的。||2:卡梅伦首相与奥巴马一同站在白宫洒满阳光的草坪上，卡梅伦唤起了双方对各自先辈的回忆：他们并肩作战，将希特勒的军队从法国驱赶出去。||3:卡梅伦传达了一条明确的信息：七十年后的今天，当英国需要与美国保持一种特殊关系时，什么也比不了二战的特殊魔力。

||1:Botchan, or well-born “brats”, are prevalent in Japanese politics.||2:More than two-fifths of LDP legislators are occupying safe seats in the Diet, Japan's parliament, that were once held by fathers, grandfathers , uncles or in-laws.||3:The total number in both houses of the Diet across all parties is climbing again, after a recent sharp fall in the lower house.||4:They have to compete for their relatives' seats, but they are normally a shoo-in.||5:Eight out of 19 members of the cabinet have relatives who were in the Diet or in local politics.

||1:太子党，或者叫做好命的“小鬼们”，在日本政界中非常盛行。||2:日本国会中，超过2/5的自民党现任议员都有父亲、祖父、叔伯或者姻亲曾任议员。||3:虽然下议院的家族议员人数在不久前大幅下降，但国会两院中各党派的家族议员总数又开始持续攀升。||4:这些人同时也要为其亲属争取席位，不过正常来说都是十拿九稳。||5:现任19名内阁成员中有8人都有亲属任职于国会或者地方政界。

||1:A product of France's elite schools, including ena, he was better linked in the public mind with his love of rural Corrèze, where his grandfathers came from: its paysans, its cattle, its cheeses.||2:Compared with his brash successor, Nicolas Sarkozy, he seemed a model of understatement, one of the last French presidents who seemed to embody the nation.

||1:作为法国精英学校(包括法国国家行政学院)的产物，在公众心目中他与对科雷塞乡村的热爱有着更好的联系，科雷塞乡村是他祖辈的故土：那里有农民，牛，和奶酪。||2:和他的傲慢的继承者尼古拉·萨尔科齐相比，他似乎是个低调的典范。最后一位拥抱这个国家的法国总统。

"I've heard grandfathers and grandmothers use it, " he said. "I occasionally use it myself. "

“我听到做爷爷奶奶的人这样讲话，我自己偶尔也用它。”

One of his direct great-grandfathers , Thomas Cornell, was hanged in 1667 for murdering his mother.

他的曾祖父辈之一，托马斯-康奈尔，1667年因谋杀自己的母亲被绞死。

Both his grandfathers were miners who had to retire from work through injury.

他的祖父和外祖父都是矿工，他们因伤不得不从工作中退下来。

My children are getting an education here. I don't want them to follow their father and grandfathers as the situation gets worse.

我的孩子们在这里可以上学，我不想让他们再过他们父辈祖辈的生活，因为现在情况越来越糟了。

Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers .

我们的街道不再像我们的祖父那个时代一样安全了。

Some people who download music argue that the RIAA is going after the wrong people when it sues 12-year-old girls and grandfathers .

一些下载音乐的人申辩说唱协起诉12岁的小姑娘和年老的祖父们是找错了对象。

Thereby, and though human-rights groups understandably revile the practice, Pushtuns have peace and happy grandfathers .

因此，尽管可以理解人权团体会指斥这种行为，但普什图人却可以拥有慈祥而幸福的祖父了。

The new law also still gives rights of guardianship entirely to fathers and grandfathers .

在新法规中父亲和爷爷依然保持着监护权。