He continued working in his mother's theater company as an actor and a manager until nineteen thirteen.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

He went around passing out rumors that his mother had actually been impregnated by the god Apollo, when he appeared as a snake in her bed.

他散布谣言说,阿波罗神化身为蛇，与他的母亲结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When his mother listened to his chest she could hear that squeaky whistling sound known as wheezing.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

He won't listen;he bowls ahead, and he discovers in the process the terrible,terrible truth, which is that by accident,by coincidence, not by intent that as a young man he killed his father and subsequently married his mother.

他充耳不闻,执迷不悟,随后他在不经意间,发现了极其可怕的事实,或是因为事故,或是因为巧合,总之绝不是故意的,他年少时曾经弑父,随即娶了自己的母亲

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

One evening, his mother sends him to his room without dinner as punishment for misbehaving.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

As time went on there were other kinds of complaints, these about accuracy. So, for instance, his mother in the book is represented as being uneducated. Well, in fact she was a schoolteacher.

随着时间的流逝不断显现，比如，书里写他的母亲没有受过教育,事实上他母亲是教师。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

When Woody was young, his mother sang him songs she had learned as a girl.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

And what's interesting about it, and what indicates its importance to Buddy, is that Bessie gets on about him getting a phone ; where he's teaching in upstate New York; he's teaching writing as a visiting writer at a college in upstate New York. And Bessie, his mother, keeps saying, "Well, why won't you get a phone, Buddy?

有意思的是，这对巴蒂很重要，因为，贝西给他打了一个电话,在他在纽约北部教书的地方;,他教写作，作为访问学者在,纽约北部的一所大学里，贝西，他的妈妈，说，好了，为什么你不接电话？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He says that as a child he did not understand why his father did not live with him and his mother all of the time.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

Doctor Spock described his mother as extremely controlling.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

she had hair like the midnight sky and she smiled up them with shining gray eyes As the old man lifted the little girl in his arms, Mother Moonshower put the rain babies into the silver basket.

VOA: special.2009.02.28