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父母
Parents
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
太多的人一直在分析他们的过去，他们的童年，他们的记忆，他们的父母，并意识到它没有做任何事情——或者它做得不够。
I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.
我没有时间坐下来为任何事情后悔，尽管有时我希望我能在父母在世的时候多看看他们，多为他们做些事情。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人，只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样，可以变得内省，唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春，他就迷失了。
I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
我从来没想过我不会成功。我对自己有绝对的信心，我想，正是这种信心帮助我度过了难关，而我的父母一直在我身后支持着我。
I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
我和父母关系很好。我有很多熟人，但是我的好朋友很少，我可以用一只手计算我的好朋友。这就是我想要的。
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
我四岁时父母分居了。这并不是最顺利的离婚，但正如我母亲常说的，没有激情的离婚，就没有激情的婚姻。
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
并不是说我们和父母没有亲密的关系——我和妈妈关系很好——但是父母们并没有想过要离开他们的孩子几个星期。
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
我的父亲是一名化学家，我的母亲是一名家庭主妇。我的父母灌输给我们这样一种感觉:学习是可能发生在你身上的最令人兴奋的事情，它永远不会结束。
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.
我知道为人父母是多么令人清醒和疲惫。但现实是，我们的孩子的未来取决于我们作为父母。因为我们知道，最初的几年真的会永远持续下去。
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。
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
即使你做了一些别人可能认为是错误的事情，你至少应该愿意谈论它，告诉你的父母你在做什么，因为你相信它是正确的。
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
生活很简单。我的父母来自英格兰北部，那是一个崎岖、荒凉、勤劳的地区，所以人们对奢侈品不抱任何期望。
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
父母的声音是上帝的声音，因为对他们的孩子来说，他们是天堂的助手。
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
父母不仅要训练他们的孩子:至少同样重要的是他们应该训练自己。
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。
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
我妈妈是舞蹈演员，爸爸是歌手，我的生活中一直都有这样的音乐。
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
我从未试着找到我真正的父母。我非常感谢我的父母收养了我——他们是非常了不起的人。是我的父亲鼓励我去质疑一切，去开拓自己的道路，去思考，去阅读。我总是觉得我有权质疑一切。
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。