The life is hard for my father: my mother died years ago, and now his children are far from home, our selfish choices taking us from one end of the country to the other.

我父亲的生活很艰难：我母亲多年前就去世了，现在他的孩子们远离家乡，我们自私的选择把我们从国家的一端带到另一端。

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I'd take them the products of Mother Clinton's Country Kitchen and check on their work.

我给他们准备的是“克林顿大妈乡村厨房”的成品，然后询问他们工作的进度。

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With dauntless persistence, a sharp vision of what Russia should become and a sense that he embodied the spirit of Mother Russia, Putin has put his country back on the map.

凭借着不屈不挠的毅力、俄罗斯该成为什么的敏锐眼光以及体现俄罗斯母亲之精神的意识，普京使俄罗斯重归世界地图。

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And as they set off across the wild country of west Texas, their mother and father could hardly hear a thing.

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He fled with his mother on the last public flight out of the country before the overthrow of the government.

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The connections are not to the old Mother Country of the empire.

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But Heather Cardero, a former teacher, mother of three, wants the country to move to the middle.

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Which, despite being dependencies of the mother country, employed some considerable advantages.

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