He gave me a piece of paternal advice.

他给了我慈父般的忠告。

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His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

他的祖父母是管家和女管家，甚至还做过地位更低的仆人，后来狄更斯就隐瞒了祖父母的背景。

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A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think.

——父辈的奉献也许并非像我们想的那样必不可少。

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This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

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Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.

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This mattered, for there was also a strong connection between paternal investment and a child's nutritional state.

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The institution of private property, meanwhile, made paternal certainty a vital concern, and monogamy, particularly for women, was strictly enforced.

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