最近他拒绝用中文称呼他在中国出生的外祖母和外祖父，而是坚持用英文叫他们“Grandma”和“Grandpa”。

Lately, he refuses to address his Chinese-born grandparents by their usual titles, insisting on 'Grandma' and 'Grandpa' in English.

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我外祖父固然是在风华正茂之年就弃世了，当时他只有六十七岁，但是我的祖父，祖母和外祖母却都活到了八十以上。

My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty.

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