Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

His father said, "I see you are spending more of your time in idleness than in taking care of business at this crucial time."

他的父亲对他说,"我老是发现,你成天游手好闲,而不在这节骨眼儿上多花点功夫做正经事"

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If we want to think of it in the more familiar domestic context, Milton has to begin a career that could please both himself and his father Now last time I mentioned the dramatic structure of this poem.

如果我们想更贴切的了解的话，弥尔顿不得不从事一项能使他自己和他父亲都满意的职业,我现在最后一次提及这首诗的戏剧性结构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A leading American religious thinker of that time called Doctor Spock "the father of permissiveness."

VOA: special.2009.03.15

You remember he's written his father in "Ad Patrem" that the trade, the vocation of poetry -- it may be homely and slighted in his father's eyes, but it was of course worth all of Milton's time, all of Milton's uncessant care and investment.

他在写给父亲的Ad，Patrem中说，写诗这个职业在父亲看来或许,简单无趣，却值得弥尔顿付出所有的时间，精力，和投资。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says that as a child he did not understand why his father did not live with him and his mother all of the time.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

The father of three was even married for a time to Elvis Presley's daughter.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Reagan says almost from the time his father first learned he was ill, he has been part of a national campaign to raise public awareness about this devastating and heartbreaking illness.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04