If a child says to his mother, "I love you, Mommy", it's a very unusual parent who would say, "Oh, no. The verb agreement is mistaken."

如果孩子对他的妈妈说：“我爱你，妈妈”，很少有家长会说：“哦，不对。动词一致性错了。”

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The drama of love that I saw played out at the bar each night as a child is all about the human hunger for safe emotional connection, a survival imperative we experience from the cradle to the grave.

当我还是一个孩子时看到的那些关于爱的戏剧说的都是人类对安全的感情联系的渴望，一个一直存在着的人生规则，从娘胎延续到坟墓。

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I dislike the hierarchy of human value it implies and, every time it leads a parent to believe that his or her autistic child will never feel love, I want to cry.

我讨厌这个模型所暗示的等级观念。每当我看到这种说法使父母们认为他们的孩子永远也无法感受爱时，我真想哭。

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So the child infers, " "Mom is nice, I love Mom."

所以小男孩会推断，“妈妈很好，我爱妈妈“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, - But we loved with a love that was more than love-- Annabel Lee I and my Annabel Lee-- With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me.

我和她都还只是孩子，在这个海边的王国，我们炙热的相爱了-,我和我的-,我们的爱连天上的六翼天使,也把我和她妒嫉。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That's why parents talking about their children can be so tedious - other parents, I mean, not me or you - not because we doubt their love, or the child's charms, but because itemizing infinities is obviously the most boring thing imaginable.

BBC: A Point of View: The pain when children fly the nest