Jia engaged in small talks with Mongolian grannies and trained horses, milked and cut grass with young people.

他与蒙古族阿妈谈家常;与青年人一起驯马、挤奶、割草

I will go with grannies to practice yang-ge, winter or summer, the more we do it, the happier we are.

我就和一帮老太太去扭秧歌，冬天扭、夏天扭，越扭越欢。

Near a flower garden, two white-haired grannies are knitting in the sunshine. Their grandchildren are playing on the grass.

在一处花圃旁，两位白发老太太在阳光下织毛衣，她们的孙子、孙女们在草地上玩耍。

||1:NOT good: but far from the worst outcome.||2:On April 15th a Milan court ruled that Silvio Berlusconi should serve his sentence for tax fraud by helping in an old people’s home in Milan.||3:But the former prime minister will be free to go to Rome from Tuesday to Thursday.||4:In practice, the 77-year-old is unlikely to spend more than half a day a week pretending to help grannies , and then only for nine months.

||1:结果不怎么好，但也还不是最糟糕。||2:4月15日米兰法院判决：西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼需要在养老院做社工，来为其税务欺诈罪行买单。||3:但是这位意大利前总理依旧可以在周二到周四自由前往罗马。||4:实际上，77岁的贝卢斯科尼不太可能每周花上超过半天时间假装为老人们服务，进而将刑期缩短到仅仅九个月。

||1: Many people grumble about the grannies and their throbbing music. Altercations often break out. ||2: The mayor’s hotline in Hefei, in the central province of Anhui, has received more than 200 complaints about guangchangwu so far this year. ||3: But officials are usually reluctant to intervene. ||4: As one local-government website put it: dancing grannies are preferable to those “wallowing in mah-jong and other bad activities”.

||1:许多人抱怨大妈们以及她们扰民的歌曲。经常发生争吵。||2:中部省份安徽合肥的市长热线今年已经收到了超过200次的广场舞投诉。||3:但是官方通常不愿意介入。||4:一个地方政府的网站上写着：跳舞的大妈比那些沉溺在麻将等不良活动中的人好多了。

||1:The proposal would also dramatically cut taxes for businesses and individuals—a move it claims could be paid for by eliminating exemptions and deductions.||2:It also rehashes Mr Ryan’s scheme to stop the government paying directly for health care for the elderly via Medicare, and instead hand out that could be used to buy private insurance.||3:But to ease suspicions that this is simply a ruse to foist rising costs on blameless grannies , Mr Ryan now says that the vouchers could be used to remain in a version of the current Medicare programme; this, however, may cost people money if competition from private providers succeeds in undercutting Medicare.

||1:这项提案也会大幅度削减企业所得税和个人所得税——并宣称会通过消除免税额和扣除额来补偿这部分税款。||2:在这项提案中，瑞恩先生改变了原计划阻止政府通过医疗保险向老年人直接支付医疗保健费用，而是建议发放可以用来购买私人保险的抵用券。||3:但是为了避免让人怀疑这是蒙骗无辜老人钱的伎俩，瑞恩先生现补充说抵用券可能以一种形式存在于目前的医疗保险规划中。然而，如果私人保险企业之间的竞争促使他们廉价出售医疗保险，可能会让人们花很多钱。

Grooving grannies encounter opposition

随音乐起舞的大妈们遭到了反对

Gambling touches almost everyone, from friends playing online poker to grannies buying lotto tickets.

赌博几乎发生在每个人身上，无论是朋友之间在线打扑克，还是老奶奶们购买号码奖券。

The grannies sold scarves in the colors of the competing teams, which took two days to knit, for 170 rand each.

老奶奶们出售需要花2天时间织成的参赛球队颜色的围巾，每条售价为170兰特。

There are 30 "maids" who work shifts at the cafe, including students, office workers and retired real-life grannies .

老奶奶女仆咖啡厅“中共有30个”女仆“轮班工作，她们之中有学生、白领，也有真正的老人。”

Grannies brave the subway at rush hour to collect commuters’ discarded newspapers.

老太太们在上下班高峰时间勇敢地走进地铁，收集通勤族丢弃的报纸。

As for family breakdown, some commentators seem to think that sex really was invented in 1963. British grannies know differently.

说到家庭破裂，一些评论员似乎认为1963年才真正出现性泛滥。

I grew up with grannies and they taught me a lot of folklore, and religious based old customs.

我是奶奶和外婆带大的，他们给我讲过许多民间神话和基于宗教的古老习俗。

Near a flower garden, two white-haired grannies are knittinging the sunshine.

在一个花圃边有两个白头发的老太太在织毛衣。

This is because postmenopausal women rarely retain the flaxen locks of their youth, of course eventually becoming grey grannies .

这也是为什么绝经后的女性很少能保留她们少女时代淡黄色的头发，而变成白头发的老奶奶。