It's not a social role in the way that she could be granddaughterly or motherly on those other occasions.

这不是一个她可以像孙女,或者母亲一样的社会角色。

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It's our host, it's our mother,

她毕竟是我们的主人，我们的母亲，

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She's confronted him with having knowingly taken the father's words the wrong way: "You stop that lying.

她母亲已对理查,使用的方法心知肚明：,““不要再撒谎了“

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That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild.

这是天国的本分，我们的本分,喃喃念着一个个名字，像一个母亲叫着她的孩子们,当睡意最终降临,那跑野了的四肢。

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While it would touch my mom and her life, it would be so in an indirect way.

不过却可以接触到我的母亲和她的生活，这是一种间接性接触。

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because at one of the sites, the professor kind of finds out a little bit more about his mother, what her experiences were, especially during the War.

因为教授在其中一处,详细介绍了他母亲的经历，尤其是她在战时的经历。

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I speak about the devastation from the hurricane Katrina My mom lost her home.

我谈到了卡特里娜飓风,所带来的灾难,我的母亲失去了她的家。

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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But my mother, being more imaginative, retaliated with an assault upon my sensibilities that crushed me with the moral horror involved in taking a life.

可是我母亲更擅长运用生活的艺术，她会用人性的良知感情惩戒我,让我以后对摧残生灵心有余悸，“

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Tanaka This is Tanaka who you just saw was the only one I found at the place when we were looking for someone for an interview. And she gave us this fascinating story of what is the life for a mother worrying about her daughter in this time of changes.

刚才你们看见的是,是我在采访时发现的唯一的人,她给我们讲述了一个,非常感人的故事,是关于母亲如何担心她女儿的。

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