For a while after my grandfather quit the icehouse because of severe bronchial problems, he ran a liquor store.

有一段时间，外公因为严重的支气管炎辞掉了冰厂的活儿，开了家酒类贩卖店。

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Its massive oaken door stood unbarred. Within was a small chamber, chilly as an icehouse, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.

巨大的橡木门没上门闩，里边有个小室，寒气逼人，四周是天然的石灰岩墙壁，上面水珠晶莹透亮。

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When my grandparents moved from Bodcaw, which had a population of about a hundred, to the metropolis Hope, Papaw worked for an icehouse delivering ice on a horse-drawn wagon.

当外祖父母搬离只有百来人的博德科，来到大城市霍普镇时，老外公在一家制冰厂找了份活儿，赶马车送冰。

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Jere Thompson Jr. had the experience of watching his father and uncle drive the family's 7-Eleven empire -- a worldwide convenience-store chain that his grandfather started with a single Dallas icehouse in 1927 -- into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.

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