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父母
Parents
Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
因为它是根据我的父母改编的，所以它在情感上比我的一些超现实主义戏剧更贴近我。然后我喜欢喜剧和悲伤的平衡。它应该像喜剧一样有趣，但你应该关心角色，为他们感到悲伤。
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
所有的父母都相信他们的孩子能做不可能的事。从我们出生的那一刻起，他们就这么想，不管我们多么努力地想证明他们错了，他们现在都在想我们。真正令人讨厌的是，他们可能是对的。
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
我爱我的父母。向他们坦白就像向我自己坦白一样。我教育他们，我希望我们的关系能继续发展。我仍然想让它们成为我生活的一部分。我想和他们分享我的经历。
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.
母亲、父亲、配偶和年迈父母的子女所需要的是一个完整的国家护理基础设施，其重要性丝毫不亚于道路、桥梁、隧道、宽带、公园和公共工程等有形基础设施。
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
我从小就是一个舞者。我的父母是舞者;我们小时候经常看芭蕾舞。我突然想到，比起跳这些舞步，我更喜欢的是表演我所参加的任何一场特殊表演的故事。
I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.
我从小打垒球和篮球。我真的很想踢足球，但父母都拒绝了。我气了一会儿，然后就好了。现在，仅仅因为我高并不意味着我能打篮球。我挥棒打得更好了。
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
我的父母和祖父母一直从事教学、医疗或神职工作，所以我在某种程度上是在一种与他人串通一气的感觉中长大的，所以这样做没有任何好处;这是一个人成长的方式。
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
我想成为一名钢琴演奏家，当我上高中的时候，我的父母非常害怕我太过专注于钢琴演奏。我最终会陷入某种死胡同，无法实现他们认为我拥有的任何潜力。
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
民权的产生是因为年轻人的参与。年轻人站了起来，帮助打破了他们父母已经习惯的生活模式。下一代人必须坚持他们所参与的社会活动。
My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
我的父母非常鼓励我。但是，我得教他们看完戏后如何正确地评价一个演员——不管你喜不喜欢他们的表演，你都得告诉他们他们有多棒，因为他们第二天晚上还得接着演。
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。
As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.
尽管我对自己的领养感到放心，但对我来说，先天与后天孰优孰劣的问题一直是个大问题。我爱我的父母，但我一直在想，对于一个有血缘关系的人，我是否会感受到一种不同的爱——不是多或少，只是不同。
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Your parents may have created you, but they don't define you.
你的父母可能创造了你，但他们不能定义你。
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。
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。
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。
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
我们想要感觉到这个地球是属于我们的，就像我们小时候父母的房子一样。
Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
我们的孩子将不仅仅是“我们的孩子”——他们将成为其他人的丈夫和妻子，以及我们孙辈的父母。