When his mother learned of his failing grades she required her sons to read two library books every week.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He went around passing out rumors that his mother had actually been impregnated by the god Apollo, when he appeared as a snake in her bed.

他散布谣言说,阿波罗神化身为蛇，与他的母亲结合。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

When she was about four years old, she heard her mother struggling to play a piece of music on the piano.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

A new mother,for example, quickly learns to try to sleep when her baby is quiet, even in the middle of the day.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The idea for it came when a mother told her that there were no summer camps where she could send her disabled child.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

So when Kristi uses the truck to see her mother outside Washington, people are disappointed that she cannot stop to sell them cupcakes.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

he wrote about his mother's ability to correctly identify her children's sicknesses when the doctors were wrong.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

When Mary was thirteen, her mother remarried and moved to another town.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

And she was very good at it. She also seemed to feel most safe when she was at home with her mother and father, or riding a horse on her family's land.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

When Eartha was eight, her mother married.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

When she showed the letter to her mother,my grandmother, looked at her and said, 'You're not going anywhere.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04