A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
父
Parent
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
如果我真的有做父母的冲动，我会领养——或者领养。
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
我父母的离婚使我的生活发生了重大的变化。它影响了我。
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
好奇心是注意力的来源，正如注意力是记忆的来源一样。
You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.
作为父母，你可以变得非常严肃。这是必须反对的。
Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
现在我已经为人父母了，我明白了为什么我父亲总是心情不好。
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
虽然野心本身是一种恶习，但它往往也是美德之母。
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
恐惧是唯一真正的敌人，它源于无知，是愤怒和仇恨的根源。
The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
父母能给孩子最好的训练就是训练孩子训练自己。
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
如果你是父母，那就做父母。你明白我的意思吗?我是一个家长。我有女儿。
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
有什么能比父母对孩子的爱更清楚、更合理的解释呢?
Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
新父母，即使你不是第一次为人父母，真的知道该怎么做吗?
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
我的母亲是一个家庭主妇，但她也是一个艺术家。我父亲是电气工程师。
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Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
显然，失去父母是非常困难的。我每天都想念我的爸爸，但我知道他会为看到我继续游泳并在奥运会上再试一次而感到自豪。
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
在那段时间里，我失去了父亲，有了自己的孩子。就像，好吧，我现在明白了。我知道做父亲的意义。你对父母的看法也不一样。
There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.
作为父母，你要学会做一些事情——利用你身体的每一部分，因为你一直在同时处理多项任务。你抱着孩子，用左脚把门关上。
Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.
现在我有了孩子，我可能比以往任何时候都更过分地保护自己了。我妻子给我起的绰号是“红色警报”。“有时候我只是想看看孩子们是否还在呼吸。但我尽量不做一个直升机家长。
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
当父母告诉孩子使用哪个叉是正确的，然后继续使用错误的叉时，孩子会得到两个令人困惑的消息。孩子们听父母吵吵闹闹，却被告知要对兄弟姐妹好，也会这样做。
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.
当父母是什么感觉?当个孩子是什么感觉?这就是故事的作用。他们把你带到那里。他们提供了戏剧性的解释，这总是不同于解释性的解释。