A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
父母
Parents
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
我父母的婚姻并不完美。它很好，但并不完美。我的婚姻并不完美。我的妻子是，但我碰巧不完美。但是，这并不排除必须捍卫和保护婚姻的定义这一事实。
Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
我们的父母非常严格。不是以一种残忍或可怕的方式，而是有明确的规则，比如在学校晚上六点以后你不出去，周末你必须在某个时间回家。这里没有特别的庇护，但我们都是受过良好教育的。
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
有人说，爱是向下流动的。父母对孩子的爱总是远远超过孩子对父母的爱;世人中间谁曾爱神，如神向我们所显的爱，有千分之一呢。
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。
Parents who were themselves raised with too little attention given to their own early feelings, if they have not worked out the resulting emotional problems in subsequent years, often look forward to having children of their own so that the children will make them happy.
那些在成长过程中很少注意自己早期感受的父母，如果他们没有在以后的岁月中解决由此产生的情感问题，往往希望有自己的孩子，这样孩子就会使他们快乐。
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
当一个男人和一个女人有一个压倒性的对彼此的热情,在我看来,尽管这些障碍将他们作为父母或丈夫的名义,他们属于彼此,和由神权爱好者,尽管人类公约或法律。
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.
如果你想写，就写吧。这是第一条规则。把它寄给，寄给那些能够发表它的人。别寄给我。不要把它展示给你的配偶，或你的另一半，或你的父母，或其他人。他们不会出版的。
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
以前，我想，妈妈和爸爸就是一切，但现在，就我而言，我有了两个新女孩，突然间，她们完全依赖你，有了第三代。这是一个有趣的转变。你有孩子，你有你自己，然后你有你的父母。
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。
Supporting the troops means paying attention to their needs both in the field and at home. It means understanding their lives both as warriors fighting for our nation, and as husbands and wives, parents, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters struggling to take care of their families.
支持部队意味着关注他们在战场和国内的需要。这意味着要理解他们作为为国家而战的战士，作为丈夫和妻子、父母、兄弟姐妹、努力照顾家庭的儿女的生活。
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
作为父母，我们需要把孩子送回“老式”的户外夏令营，随着对体育和学术性夏令营的需求上升，户外夏令营的数量一直在下降。我们需要反对削减公共公园项目的预算，反对关闭公共游泳池和游乐场。
Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.
任何一个孩子都可能会经历一段时期，在此期间他们对父母或老师变得不那么直言不讳。但是，女孩和男孩一样，生活在许多不同的世界里——她们有自己的朋友、教室和父母——在这些不同的领域里，她们可能有不同程度的表达能力。
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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。
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。
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。
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
有些双胞胎觉得他们需要互相比较，但我们不是这样的。但那是因为我的父母，还有家里六个孩子。
I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.
我要感谢我的父母总是强调要做一个独立的人。