A whole cache of babies.cruised imperiously in their strollers,propelled by their mothers or by pairs of grandmothers (Anne Tyler)

到处都看得到婴儿…在婴儿车里悠闲自在，母亲或祖母则推着走来走去(安妮·泰勒)

Yes, there were grandmothers in shorts, big-butted women, in knitted pants and men wearing such an assortment of clothing that it looked as if they had dressed hurriedly in a burning building

对，这里有穿短裤的老奶奶和穿毛线裤的大屁股女人，男人的衣着也七拼八凑毫不搭配，就仿佛他们刚从一幢着火的大楼里匆忙捡起什么就胡乱穿上逃跑出来似的。

She shouted into grandmothers good ear to tell her the good news

她对着祖母的好耳朵喊着、告诉她这一好消息。

Chinese rural women, from teenage girls to white-haired grandmothers , cut papers with scissors into various designs, making papercut works of great interest.

作者大都是农村妇女，她们可能从十几岁一直剪到成为白发苍苍的婆婆，在她们的剪刀下，产生了一幅幅充满情趣的剪纸作品。

||1: For Argentine society, the chapter never closes. ||2: Continuing revelations about hundreds of adopted children who were abducted with their parents, or born in custody, have resulted in DNA tests and legal challenges by a campaigning group, “Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo”. ||3: Two of these fine recent novels revisit events during the junta. ||4: The others—both exceptional debuts—focus on a disturbing present, yet are haunted by unexplained disappearances.

||1:对于阿根廷社会来说，这一篇章永不会结束。||2:当年数百儿童随父母一同遭到绑架，有的或出生在拘留所中，这些儿童随后被他人收养。随着他们身世不断被揭开，一个名为“五月广场祖母协会”的人权组织呼吁进行DNA鉴定，并质疑法律的公正性。||3:最近一批优秀小说中有两部回顾了军政府时期的事件。||4:其余几部均是杰出的处女作小说，故事围绕现代生活展开，但人们同样被不明原因的失踪事件困扰，终日惶惶不安。

||1:EVERY summer holiday when he was at school, Carlos Fuentes would stay with his grandmothers , one in Veracruz, on the steamy Gulf coast, the other from Mazatlán, near the badlands of Sinaloa on the Pacific.||2:The women told the young boy stories, tales of Mexico, of revolution, of peasants who were leaving the land to make great cities, of bandits, of love and lust, of feud and food, of Indians, of Spaniards and baroque Spanish towns in America.||3:He took these stories back with him to Washington, to Santiago, to Buenos Aires, to wherever his father, a Mexican diplomat, was posted (Carlos himself was born in Panama).||4:The solitude of this peripatetic childhood turned the boy into a writer: he began to publish his stories when he was 11, and never stopped until the day he died.

||1:上学时的每个暑假，卡洛斯·富恩特斯都会与他的祖母们呆在一起，一位在潮湿的墨西哥海湾维拉克鲁斯州，另一位来自太平洋锡那罗亚州不毛之地上的马萨兰特。||2:两位女士给这只小男孩讲故事，讲关于墨西哥，关于革命，关于离开这片土地去建设城市的农民，关于歹徒、爱与欲望、封地与食物、印第安人、美洲的西班牙人和巴洛克西班牙城镇的故事。||3:他把这些故事揣在身边去到华盛顿、圣地亚哥、布宜诺斯艾利斯，以及他老爸被派遣去的地方任何地方，他老爸是一位墨西哥外交官（卡洛斯本人是出生在巴拿马的）。||4:孤独辗转的童年把他变成了一位作家：他11岁就开始出版自己写的故事了，出到死才停下来。

||1:In her novels it was inevitably mothers, grandmothers , aunts, sisters who kept families and communities together with that mesh of loving bossiness: pull up your socks, comb your head, do your chores, hush your mouth.||2:She’d done the same, raising two sons, fitting her writing into chinks in the endless round of work and domestication.||3:In kitchens across the land black women stitched grey cotton, or poured soda into the crease of a palm to make biscuits.||4:They brought order out of chaos, as her writing did.

||1:在她的小说中，不可避免地是母亲、祖母、阿姨、姐妹用爱发号施令的网把家庭和社区维系在一起: 加紧努力，梳头，做你的家务，闭上你的嘴。||2:她做了同样的事情，养育两个儿子，在无休止的工作和家庭生活中，她找到空隙来进行自己的写作。||3:在全国各地的厨房里，黑人妇女缝制着灰色的棉花，或者把苏打水倒在掌心的皱褶里做饼干。||4:他们在混乱中带来了秩序，就像她的写作一样。

JOHN ANDERSON: "There are a lot of us who have grandmothers who would not even think of using a store-bought pie crust. And that is kind of the least of the shortcuts that we use."

安德森：“我们中很多人的外婆都从来不会想到去商店购买馅饼皮。这算是我们最少用到的捷径。”

"My grandmothers ’ attitude is ’wait and see - don’t celebrate’, " Ms Wong said.

“我奶奶的态度是‘等等看——先别急着庆祝’，”黄女士表示。

"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。”

Despite jokes about women as spendthrifts, mothers (and grandmothers ) are expected to consider their children’s needs as paramount.

不管那些把女性当做挥霍无度的笑话，母亲（还有曾祖母）都被期望把他们的孩子当做是至高无上的。

Additionally, our grandmothers weren’t going to restaurants to meet with girlfriends to talk about their sex lives, careers and health.

此外，我的祖母不会和女朋友一起去餐厅，讨论他们的性生活，事业和健康状况。

But whether the Wii will introduce a generation of grandmothers to the joys of karate games remains to be seen.

但Wii会不会让“祖母级”人群也感受到玩空手道游戏的快乐，现在还不得而知。

But I do think we could learn a thing or two from our mothers and grandmothers .

但我觉得我们仍可以从妈妈和外婆那里学到些东西。

’ and ’Could we go back and kill our grandmothers ?

或者“人能回到过去杀死自己的祖母吗？”

We seem to have a lot of hippos around the house, I think both of my grandmothers had a thing for them.

家里好像有很多的河马。我觉得我的两位祖母都对它有某种喜爱。

Today, the lives of women have changed beyond recognition compared with those of their grandmothers and great grandmothers.

今天，相比祖辈和先人，妇女的生活已经发生了天翻地覆的变化。

The guests watched and winced in absolute silence. So forceful was my grandmothers personality that no one dared stand up for me.

客人们都在静静地看着，我的祖母实在太霸道了，根本没有人敢为我说话。

The opportunities for catering to white-haired grandmothers are huge, but the damaging headlines can be large, too.

能够迎合白发苍苍的祖母的机会很多，但是由此出现具有破坏性的头条新闻也可能连天匝地。

Ask when your mom and grandmothers (from both sides of your family) started theirs.

去问问你母亲，祖母和外祖母什么时候开始行经的。

Finally, belatedly, he gave up and said sorry: "I would like to apologise to my grandmothers . I have learnt a valuable lesson from this. "

姗姗来迟的最后结果是，他放弃了努力，并表示遗憾：“我要向我的祖母们道歉。我从这件事中得到了宝贵的教训。”

Several studies have linked grandmothers , in particular, with survival of the species.

特别的是，有几项研究把祖母（外祖母）和物种的生成联系了起来。

Also, according to the Glamour men, roses, lilacs, and lavender remind them of their grandmothers .

同样的，据《魅力》杂志调查，玫瑰、丁香和薰衣草会让男人想到自己的奶奶。

We are fortunate in having access to education and employment that our great-grandmothers could only have dreamed about.

我们很幸运，可以读书，也能找到工作，这是我们曾祖母那一辈人梦寐以求的事情。

Outside of Bangkok, grandmothers work alongside men in the fields, raising their grandchildren with the money they get from selling crops.

在曼谷以外的其它地区，祖母们在农田里和那些男人一起劳作，卖掉稻米，赚点小钱。

The grandmothers of China prefer majiang, known in the west as mah-jong.

中国的老太太们则喜欢打麻将。

There is nothing like grandmothers . To this day her teachings continue to serve me well.

祖母就是祖母，无与伦比，即便到今天她当初的教诲都会在我耳旁萦绕。