Strained familiar ties also feature in Miki's Instant Swamp (2009), which follows the editor of a struggling magazine who becomes a shopkeeper as a means of getting to know her real father.

三木聪导演的《速成沼泽》(2009)讲的是一个杂志编辑为了找到真正的父亲成为商店老板的故事，涉及的也是家庭关系紧张的问题。

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We are well familiar with the importance of this time of year when people throughout the country returned to their "Lao Jia" to meet their family and friends, and renew ties of hearts and home.

我们非常熟悉一年中这个时候的重要性，当全国各地的人们返回他们的老家，与家人和朋友见面，重续家庭生活纽带的时候。

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Severing your ties to the familiar stability of people you have always known means he has just made himself the center of your universe, and now has no competition for your attention.

与你一直都了解的人们中熟悉的稳定性的关系割裂，以让他成为宇宙的中心，现在，对你的注意力不存在竞争者。

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Government officials are willing to take the loss because the Obama administration would like to sever its last ties to the auto maker, the people familiar with the matter said.

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They promised to push against rival tribes spearheading autonomy if Mr. Maliki fulfills a list of demands, including more jobs for Sunnis in the security forces and an end to what they regard as the marginalization and indiscriminate arrest of people suspected of ties to Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party, according to people familiar with the meeting.

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People familiar with the matter say that British officials in the region were aware of Mr. Heywood's close ties to Mr. Bo, who was the Chongqing Communist Party chief and a political rising star, as the Briton had advised many British businesses, attended embassy functions in Beijing and participated in meetings with British business and political figures.

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