Before the Grimm Brothers gathered their collection of well-known German folk fairy tales, these stories followed an oral tradition, being passed on from grandmother to mother to children.
在格林兄弟时代,当这两个兄弟在搜集整理德国民间童话故事之前,这些古老的民间故事的都是口口相传的,一般由祖辈传给父辈,再由父辈传给孩子。
He had promised to bring up her trunk from the village while she went in to visit the grandmother.
他答应在她去看望祖母的时候,把她的箱子从村子里搬出来。
The baby was born and update texts were coming in quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa.
孩子出生后,喜出望外的祖母特蕾莎很快就短信传来最新消息。
She decided to take her grandmother from their hometown and live with her in a rented room near her school.
她决定把奶奶从老家带出来,和她一起住在学校附近租来的房间里。
I go there every summer, to visit my grandmother, get away from the city and relax.
我每年夏天都去那里,去看望我的祖母,离开城市,放松一下。
Seeing the old hymn-book on the shelf, Heidi said: "Grandmother, shall I read you a song from your book now?"
海蒂看到书架上的那本旧赞美诗,她说:“奶奶,现在我给你念一首你书里的歌,好吗?”
My grandmother likes sitting outside in the sun after lunch, but her neighbour has put up a high fence that stops sunshine from going into her yard in the early afternoon.
我的奶奶喜欢午饭后坐在外面晒太阳,但是她的邻居竖起了一道高高的篱笆,阻止阳光在下午初时照进她的院子。
Inside the box, Sunee saw something uncommon. It was a red silk umbrella. She had never seen anything like it! "Shipping a package overseas used to take a lot of time," said Grandmother "Packages traveled by train and ship. It could take many months to get a package from across the ocean. How long did your package take to arrive?"
在盒子里,苏尼看到了一些不寻常的东西。那是一把红色的绸伞。她从来没有见过这样的东西!“过去寄一个包裹到海外要花很多时间,”祖母说,“包裹要乘火车和轮船。大洋彼岸收到包裹可能需要好几个月的时间。你的包裹花了多长时间到达?”
The brothers, along with their grandmother, arrived in a canoe made from the bark of a hoop pine.
兄弟俩和他们的祖母乘独木舟来到这里,独木舟是用南洋杉的树皮做的。
Consider the grandmother who easily gets up from the floor after playing with her grandchildren for hours. Is this who you want to be?
想一下和小孙子玩了好几个小时还能从地上轻松地站起来的祖母,这是不是你想成为的样子?
From her grandmother, she had learned that emeralds looked better with pink saris rather than green.
她在她祖母身上就曾学到,绿宝石和粉红色而不是绿色的莎莉服更搭配。
My grandmother was a semi-professional operasinger and I started from age nine but my mum is my main inspiration, she is amazing.
我的奶奶以前就是半职业的歌剧歌手而我也从九岁开始就跟学唱歌,但是我妈才是我动力的源泉。她非常棒。
Our old grandmother moans so for you, that her white hair is falling off from sorrow, as ours fell under the witch's scissors.
我们的老祖母悲恸得连她的白发都落光了,正如我们的头发在巫婆的剪刀下落掉一样。
My grandfather would sit on the couch and watch a cricket match on TV, catch every word from the commentator's mouth, but wouldn't "hear" my grandmother when she called from the other room.
我的祖父会坐在沙发上,看电视上的板球比赛,观察评论员说每一句话时候的嘴形,但是他不能听见我的祖母在另一个房间里面喊他。
My grandfather would sit on the couch and watch a cricket match on TV, catch every word from the commentator's mouth, but wouldn't “hear” my grandmother when she called from the other room.
我的祖父会坐在沙发上,看电视上的板球比赛,观察评论员说每一句话时候的嘴形,但是他不能听见我的祖母在另一个房间里面喊他。
My favorite thing on the mantle is an ink drawing from Alice in Wonderland that belonged to my grandmother.
壁炉上我最喜欢的东西就是一幅我祖母的《爱丽丝环游仙境》的墨水画。
Blau left behind things she loved but could survive without for a while, including albums of baby pictures and some silk dresses and pink China from her grandmother.
布劳当时留下了一些保留了很久的至爱之物,比如孩子的相册、祖母传下来的一些丝质裙子和粉色瓷器。
Grandmother walked by the bathroom and noticed a torrent of water streaming out from under the door.
当祖母从洗手间走过的时候,她发现有股水流从门缝里涌出来。
For a whole month, ma did not go home but stayed with her grandmother, and used what she learned from the work to take care of the sick woman.
整整一个月,小马都没有回家而是留下来陪她的外婆,她用她在医院所学的护理知识照顾着她病危的外婆。
Together Che and Dial travel from New York, where the boy lives with his rich grandmother, across America, in search of his parents.
“琪”离开居住在纽约的富有的奶奶,和黛尔一起穿越美国寻找父母双亲。
King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive Asherah pole.
亚撒王贬了他祖母玛迦太后的位,因她造了可憎的偶像亚舍拉。
To deal with all the demands of her schedule, she followed a rule learned from her seam-stress grandmother: If she had a job to do, she did it immediately.
为了应付她时间表上的各种事情,她依照一条从她祖母那里学来的原则:如果有什么工作要做,她立即就做。
Sitting at the Gala Awards ceremony tonight, the grandmother social entrepreneur from the Philippines sitting to my left asked me, "Do you think the world is getting better, or worse?"
今晚的颁奖典礼上,坐在我左侧来自菲律宾的祖母级的社会企业家问我:“你认为世界正在变得更好还是变得更糟?”
But Ramiz also enjoys bedtime stories from his grandmother about the events that are supposed to have taken place in the stony fields around his house at least 3,000 years ago.
而拉米兹也喜爱睡觉前听奶奶讲故事,故事里的事件据说发生在至少3000年前,地点在他家房子周围布满石头的这片地上。
But Ramiz also enjoys bedtime stories from his grandmother about the events that are supposed to have taken place in the stony fields around his house at least 3, 000 years ago.
而拉米兹也喜爱睡觉前听奶奶讲故事,故事里的事件据说发生在至少3000年前,地点在他家房子周围布满石头的这片地上。
Sharon Pikus, a 64-year-old grandmother from Manhasset, N.Y., had struggled since childhood with bulimia.
纽约Manhasset 64岁的祖母SharonPikus从童年就开始与暴食症斗争。
We meet, for example, 8-year-old Zhang Chengcheng from Maying village in the western province of Qinghai, whose mother and grandmother are blind from birth.
比如,在书中,我们认识了中国西部青海省马营村八岁的张成成,他的奶奶和妈妈都是先天性盲人。
Putting our passports in our hands, they sent us away from Geneva, back to our grandmother in Istanbul.
他们把我们的护照放在我们手里,送我们离开了日内瓦,回到伊斯坦布尔我们祖母的身边。
We had moved from Cairo to Mt.Vernon, Illinois, away from my grandmother when I was eight years old.
八岁的时候,我们一家从开罗搬到了伊利诺斯州的弗农山,从此远离了祖母。
We had moved from Cairo to Mt.Vernon, Illinois, away from my grandmother when I was eight years old.
八岁的时候,我们一家从开罗搬到了伊利诺斯州的弗农山,从此远离了祖母。
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