A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
父母
Parents
You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.
你知道孩子们是怎样的。他们喜欢做父母做的事。
I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
我想我的父母认为我现在的生活非常保守。
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
父母是孩子们成长的基石。
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
我知道我很幸运拥有双亲。
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
父母都支持我成为一名世界级的运动员。
I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
我是摩门教徒。我不是真正的摩门教徒,我的父母是。
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
我的父母是音乐爱好者和收藏家。这是在。
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
现在,孩子们希望他们的父母能通过试镜获得认可。
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
父母们需要知道他们的孩子在做什么。
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.
女孩子结婚是为了取悦父母,寡妇结婚是为了取悦自己。
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
每天打你的孩子。如果你不知道为什么,他知道。
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。
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
父母可以教给孩子的最重要的事情是没有他们如何相处。
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。
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。
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。
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 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。