A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
父母
Parents
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
孩子从爱父母开始;过了一段时间,他们审判他们;他们很少会原谅他们。
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
我姐姐和我出生在旧金山。当我们的父母去世时,我们来到这里和亲戚住在一起。
I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.
我不认为父母总是知道他们的孩子要去哪里,他们在做什么,他们在做什么。
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.
我让伟大的代表们为我的最大利益和安全着想。他们刚好是我的父母。
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
我的父母教导我永远不要放弃,永远相信我的未来可以是我梦想的样子。
When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.
当我还是个孩子的时候,在外面是很正常的。无论晴雨,我们的父母都会叫我们离开家。
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
父母有时不体谅年轻人,而他们年轻时却希望自己得到体谅。
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
我父母一直鼓吹努力工作的好处。但努力工作是一回事;经济斗争是另一个原因。
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
我的父母有很强的职业道德,但他们对生活的态度和哲学是:“只要能让你快乐就好。”
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
当你在一段关系中,你希望它能起作用。我父母做了,我也做了。但我们没有被教过如何让它工作。
A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
很多家长问我如何让孩子多吃蔬菜。我要说的第一件事是它从顶部开始。
Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
时间是所有人的王,他是他们的父母,是他们的坟墓,给他们他想要的,而不是他们渴望的。
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
我们有点希望一些父母能回来。当然,我们对希望他们回来的事实感到不安——我的意思是,我们怎么了?
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
我心目中的英雄是我的父母。我看不出还有谁能成为我的英雄。
My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
我的父母是搞政治的,所以这是我骨子里的想法。无论我身在何处,我似乎总是与政治扯上关系。我认为,一旦它进入你的血液,它就一直在那里。我爱它。
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
我认为这幅图显示的一件新鲜事是,孩子对父母的要求在心理上不成比例。父母经常有错,但孩子也有一些工作要做。
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
开国元勋们明智地认为,孩子对父母来说是一种不自然的负担。所以他们提供了监狱,称为学校,配备了被称为教育的酷刑。
My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.
我的父母总是让我们尽可能多地坐在一起吃晚饭,谈论我们生活中发生的事情,所以我们创造了一个很棒的食谱,我可以完全诚实地告诉我的母亲,在某种程度上,我的父亲是一名律师。