Grandmother makes a practice of keeping early hours.
祖母には早寝早起きの習慣がある。
Tom's great great great grandmother lived in Scotland.
トムの高祖母の母はスコットランドに住んでいた。
That tribe worships its ancestors.
その部族は祖先を崇拝している。
My grandmother can ride a motorcycle, and what's more, a bicycle.
私の祖母はオートバイに乗れる。まして自転車はなおさらだ。
Grandmother looked very well.
祖母はとても、元気そうでした。
My grandmother was pulling up weeds in her backyard.
祖母は裏庭で雑草を抜いていた。
Grandfather is napping on the sofa.
祖父はソファーの上でうたたねをしている。
My grandfather has lived in Kyoto for over 50 years, so he knows his way about.
祖父は京都に50年以上も住んでいるので、京都の地理に明るい。
My grandmother is always complaining of the cold.
祖母はいつも寒い寒いと言って不平を言っています。
I don't remember my grandmother's face exactly.
私は祖母の顔を正確には覚えていない。
Grandmother looks after the children during the day.
昼間は祖母が子供の面倒を見てくれます。
My grandfather lived to be ninety-nine years old.
祖父は99歳まで生きた。
Grandmother's ashes are in an urn at the temple.
祖母の遺灰は寺院に置かれた骨壷に入っている。
My grandfather is in his nineties.
祖父は90歳代である。
My grandmother is still very active at eighty-five.
私の祖母は85歳でまだとても活動的だ。
My grandfather cannot walk without a stick.
祖父はステッキがないと歩けない。
My grandfather was part Indian.
私の祖父はインド人の血を引いていた。
My grandfather keeps early hours.
祖父は早寝早起きをします。
My grandfather, being hard of hearing, often makes an irrelevant answer.
私の祖父は耳が遠いので、よくトンチンカンな返事をする。
This watch was handed down to me by my grandfather.
この腕時計は祖父が私に残してくれたものだ。
They were never to return to their country.
彼らは2度と祖国へ戻ることはなかった。
Both his grandfathers are dead.
彼の祖父は2人ともなくなっている。
There's a rumor in my mother's village that we have Japanese ancestors. I don't know what to make of it.
私の母の村には日本人の祖先がいたという噂がある。でも私にはどういうことだか分からない。
Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure. To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, tha