but my parents wouldn't let me major in that.

但是父母不让我主修那个。

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My parents didn't know what to make of it but I loved it.

我的父母不知道,地图有什么用，但我痴迷于它。

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So how do you feel call to this, but how did you like to say, I remember when I told my parents I was going to seminary, So I think there is a similar identity.

你对于做教士这件事是怎么想的，你当时是怎样想到，我记得当时对父母说我要去神学院时，所以我们的这种经历是类似的。

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Well, we were raised by different parents and we have different genes We can't tell-- My brother and me might share all sorts of things in common but we have the same parents and the same genes, fifty percent of the same genes ? So how do we tell what's causing us to be alike?

因为我们的父母不同,我们有不同的基因,我哥哥和我,可能会有很多共同点,我们的父母是一样的,有50%的基因相同,那是什么导致我们相似的呢？

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but it was my wife's parents paying for us, so it doesn't really count.

但是是我的岳父岳母付的钱，所以这不算。

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