We saw his dependency on his mother and worried that he might not survive long if anything happened to her.

我们看到他对母亲的依赖，担心万一她有个闪失，他也会活不长。

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Mother looked thin and tired after her long illness.

久病之后，母亲看上去很憔悴。

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How long did it take your mother to cook dinner?

你妈妈煮这顿晚餐花了多久的时间？

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Often the mother had to be treated in a hospital for long periods of time.

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I was with some friends of my mother long ago, and I remember looking at that and just thinking.

我是和我母亲以前的朋友们一起,我记得自己看着它沉思

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But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

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