“我母亲年轻时不能选择自己的生活”，陈女士指出。

"My mother could not choose her life when she was young," Chen points out.

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当我母亲大张着嘴时，本以为她是要指出点自己的毛病来，或是赞赏下我克服了酗酒这一斯皮尔曼的家族病的壮举。

When my mother opened her mouth wide, I thought she was going to acknowledge some shortcomings on her part, or say that she admired my overcoming the Spillman family's drinking problem.

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他表示，“员工更愿意向首席运营官指出我的错误，而不是向我母亲告状”，这种情况根本无法避免。

There is simply no avoiding the fact that "people feel more comfortable telling her what's wrong with me than telling my mother, " he says.

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