Victorian parents have been condemned for clothing their children in black for months on end.

维多利亚时代的父母因为让孩子连续数月穿黑色的衣服受到指责。

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Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an authoritarian attitude.

维多利亚时代的父母相信，他们以无理的权威气派为屏障，可以保持自己的威严。

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Victorian, in other words, can be taken to mean parent of the modern -- and like most powerful parents, it provoked a powerful reaction against itself.

换句话说，“维多利亚时代”这个词可以用来表示“现代之母”的意思。 就像大多数强大的父母那样，它引发了一场强烈的反应。

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Young lovers in Victorian England, forbidden to express their affection in public and fearful that strict parents would intercept their billets-doux, sent coded messages through the personal columns in newspapers.

FORBES: I've got a secret