玛丽亚认为她不善于当面表达自己的感情，所以她给父亲写了一封信。

Maria doesn't think she is good at telling her feelings face to face, so she writes a letter to her father.

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给她写年信的习惯如今成为了我作为父亲的神圣职责之一。

That tradition of writing her Annual Letters is now one of my most sacred duties as a dad.

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我写了许多给前男友的信，给亲戚家人的信，给去逝父亲的信，但从没发送。

I've written many old boyfriends letters that I never sent, some family members, and my father after he died.

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Now this allusion here in this verse epistle to his father is to a passage from the book of Revelation.

在这封给他父亲信里的诗中所含的暗示,是从《启示录》中的一段话来的。

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But when he crossed into Kentucky, he wrote this letter to his father.

但当他进入肯塔基州时,他在给父亲的信中这样写道

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