A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
妈妈
Mom
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
是的,妈妈。我知道你有缺点。你没有把它藏起来。那是你给我最好的礼物。
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
我母亲曾经告诉我，男人给予奖赏，上帝给予奖赏。我不需要另一个空斑。
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
我自己试镜的。没有任何人的帮助，甚至没有妈妈的帮助，我试图为自己做点什么。
I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.
我不确定是否有人——在这一点上我可能是错的——从小到大都在想，我想成为一个单身母亲。
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
谁在他们无限的智慧中规定小联盟的队服必须是白色的?当然不是母亲。
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
在我看来，要了解我们自己是多么简单的一件事，我们必须知道我们母亲的名字。
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
我的母亲教导我，我们都有能力实现我们的梦想。我缺少的是勇气。
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
梵蒂冈反对代孕母亲。好在耶稣出生的时候，他们没有这样的规矩。
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
现在回想起来，我觉得我一直都很有音乐天赋。我爸爸很有音乐天赋，我想我妈妈也很有音乐天赋。
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
我的母亲在工厂工作，做家务，在餐馆工作，总是有第二份工作。
I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
我认为，当所有的母亲都有负罪感的时候，职场母亲就会被负罪感所困扰。
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
我们社会中的男人是养家糊口的人;作为家庭主妇、妻子和母亲，女人有足够的事情做。
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My mom is definitely my rock.
我妈妈绝对是我的最爱。
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
母亲的臂膀是温柔的，孩子们在臂膀里熟睡。
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
没有母亲帮助她们度过困难的女孩会怎么做?
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
当同情的心弦被触动时，做母亲的感觉是最好的。
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
我妈妈有一个浪漫的想法，她的孩子们演奏古典音乐。这个想法是，当你还在学习语言的时候，你就已经学会了。它使用的是大脑的同一部分。
I am no mother, and I won't be one.
我不是母亲，我也不会成为母亲。