But his middle name is Miles which is my mother's maiden name." "Elizabeth is named after my grandmother.

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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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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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my mother said to me now, "but all we will miss you,your father and I."

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Anyway, my mother tried to paint me, but I'd never hold still long enough.

我母亲也试过给我画肖像,可我总是坐不住

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"But where was I?" I asked my mother.

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Day and night I begged my mother and father to take the bag away shaking with terror because no one saw them but me.

我无时无刻不乞求我的父母,指着那些袋子，让他们带走,我怕的发抖,由于除了我再也没人能看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

People will think you are sick and they are not going to vote for you.' And my message was, 'I am a public figure and this is my responsibility,'" But Stanford's Dr.So - whose mother-in-law died from liver cancer - says changing attitudes is just a start.

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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