“妈妈太粗心了，”那个小坏蛋约翰说，“我们回来的时候她不在这儿。”

"It is very careless of mother," said that young scoundrel John, "not to be here when we come back."

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牛津大学研究烟草与健康的林德森·霍利说：“我觉得这个主题很有趣的一个原因是，我妈妈在我小的时候吸烟。”

"One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger," says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

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我小的时候，我妈妈总是会给我讲睡前童话故事。

When I was a kid, my mother would always tell me bed time fairy tales.

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He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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