| 1. | Where were your grandparents and great - grandparents during the second world war
第二次世界大战期间，你的祖父母与曾祖父母在哪里呢？ |
| 2. | 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。 |
| 3. | An american will say “ i ' m polish ” or “ i ' m italian ” because his great - grandparents were born in poland or italy
一个美国人会说“我是波兰人”或“我是意大利人” ，因为他的曾祖父母是在波兰或意大利出生的。 |
| 4. | The traditional calendar says november 10 was the day for sending your great - grandparents warm woolies to wear during winter in the spirit world
农历十月一号送寒衣，人们要在那天把暖和的衣服寄给在另一个世界的祖先，让他们温暖过冬。 |
| 5. | The most amazing thing about these butterflies is that they return to the very same tree in mexico that their great - great - grandparents used the winter before
这些蝴蝶最让人惊奇的是它们总能回到自己曾祖父母曾在墨西哥过冬时栖息的那棵树。 |
| 6. | More interesting , when these ticklish rats were interbred for four generations , the offspring chirped twice as often as their great - grandparents
更有意思的是，这些喜欢痒痒的老鼠，经过4代之后，发出吱吱声的比率竟可达到它们的曾祖父母的2倍。 |
| 7. | 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。 |
| 8. | It was m ir n ' s great - grandparents who looked after the young writer john millington synge ( 1871 ? 1909 ) , when he spent several summers in this thatched cottage
作家约翰?米林顿?辛格（ 1871 ? 1909 ）年轻时曾在这间茅草屋顶的乡村小屋里度过几个夏天，当时照顾他起居的正是玛伊琳的曾祖父母。 |
| 9. | Looking out of my bedroom window into the vastness of space , time seemed to stretch forward and backward without end , engulfing me , engulfing my parents and great - grandparents , engulfing the entire history of earth
从卧室的窗口向外眺望无垠的太空，时间仿佛没有止境地前后伸延着，吞没了我，吞没了我的父母和曾祖父母，吞没了整个地球的历史。 |
