"If this can't be resolved, we will have to say Good-Bye to you & James will lose his Grand-Parents, " her mother wrote.
“如果这事儿不解决，我们将不得不和你说再见，詹姆斯将失去他的祖父母，”她母亲写道。Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren.
祖父母就如同一条细绳子一样触手可及，并能轻而易举就缠住儿孙们的手指。She said that she also saw elderly Palestinians being humiliated on the streets, "and I thought these could be my parents or grandparents" .
她说自己还在大街上看到年长的巴勒斯坦人被自己的部队侮辱，“当时，我觉得这些长者也可能是我的父母或者祖父母。”But I think of my grandchildren back home, and all I want is for those kids to be able to see their own grandparents for the first time.
但我也想念家里的孙儿们，同时我也希望，那些失明的孩子能够平生第一次亲眼见到各自的祖父母。In recent years, we don't often get a chance to visit our grandparents. They live so far away. We get to see them once in a blue moon.
最近几年，我们很少有机会去看望祖父母。他们住的太远了，见一面真有千载难逢之感。There was no child that did not know her grandparents, her great - grandparents, and their parent and grand- parents before them.
没有一个孩子不知道他们的祖父母、曾祖父母，曾祖父母的父母以及他们的祖父母。She had many problems at home, and recently her grandparents had come to stay with her family.
在家里，她遇到许多麻烦。最近，她祖父母住进了她家。But out of sight of his white friends, mother, and grandparents, Barry struggled to understand what being African-American meant.
但是，在看不见他的白人朋友，母亲，外祖父母的时候，巴里就苦苦挣扎于到底非洲裔美国人意味着什么。30 years ago, my grandparents never imaged that they would be able to move into a two-store house decorated with modern facilities.
30年前，我的祖父母根本想不到他们能搬进一栋有现代设施的二层小楼里住。