我没有想要孩子的意愿，没有母性的或父性的本能。

I have no desire to have a child, no maternal or paternal instinct.

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但Paige母性的直觉向她发出了警报。

But Paige's mothering instinct was on the alert.

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如果你对自己的丈夫有母性的倾向，那你并不孤单。

If you have a tendency to mother your husband, you're not alone.

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He revises it away from that to the more generalized, fundamental, but also very personal figure of the mother and the maternal.

但对母亲以及母性来说，这也是一很个人化的角色。

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