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父母
Parents
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。
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
我是在五六十年代长大的，我只记得我认识一个孩子，他的父母离婚了，几乎没有一个孩子的母亲除了抚养孩子之外还“工作”过。
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
在这里，他告诉我们，新生首先是“非血缘”的。你不可能通过血液，通过遗传得到它。你的父母可以给你很多，但他们不能给你这个。
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
父母通常更小心地把知识传授给孩子，而不是美德;但他们的举止应该是最重要的。
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
她要求偿还父母欠孩子的债，因为孩子未经允许就把她带到一个陌生的世界。一个人永远不应该在完全不知道如果被接受将会发生什么的情况下提出报价。
If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
如果父母双方都必须工作，我认为更重要的是，母亲必须与孩子亲近，因此，在大公司建立一个托儿的环境，不是每天一次，而是每天多次。
The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.
选举结果能够真正决定我们的家园是否会被摧毁，我们的孩子是否会被从母亲身边夺走，是否会被训练成阴谋者，是否会背叛父母、家园和教会。
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
我只会玩到我的手掉下来。我的父母会喊我停下来，因为他们再也不能忍受噪音了!我是可怕的!作为一个初出茅庐的鼓手，他们一定很难听我的。
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
当你读到一场导致两三个年轻人丧生的车祸时，你是否会停下来细想父母倾注在孩子身上的、不再适合打开棺材的爱、财富和耐心?
'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
“英俊”对很多人来说意味着很多事情。如果人们认为我长得帅，我会感到受宠若惊，这要感谢我的父母。实际上，长得好看没什么坏处，尤其是在这个行业。
I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
我曾经想出这些疯狂的工作，试图激怒我的父母，但他们说，‘你可以做任何你想做的事。所以我说，‘我想当个垃圾工’，他们说，‘没关系，我们还是会爱你的!’
I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
我不记得我的父母曾经在一起:我的父亲比我大得多，他真的只对收集杂志和浴室套间感兴趣;我们是这个地区唯一一个在草坪上拥有浴室套房的家庭。
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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。
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
我父母之间的关系真的很可怕。我的意思是，他们的仇恨程度，身体虐待的程度——基本上，我的母亲会打我的父亲——我认为我被电视上那些明亮而发人深醒的画面所吸引。
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?
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.
父母为他们的孩子提供了基因和环境，所以事实上，健谈的父母拥有拥有良好语言技能的孩子，这可能仅仅意味着，使父母健谈的基因使孩子表达清晰。
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。
Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.
亲戚是最坏的朋友，狐狸边说边被狗追赶。