Stay home. Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?"

VOA: special.2009.07.19

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

He recounts a phone call with his mother before taking the 200-meter gold in record time Thursday night.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"And so around the table, morning and night, I heard my mother and father and my sister discussing events involving black treatment in America.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16