我感到非常内疚—几天来我一直打算给父母打电话，但还是没抽出时间打。

I'm feeling very guilty— I've been meaning to call my parents for days, but still haven't got around to it.

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那些孩子确实给父母惹麻烦。

Those children do play their parents up.

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她给父母打了电话，并准备了有机食品。

She called her parents and stocked up on organic food.

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Again, there's no advertising affecting this, there's no parents being irresponsible and buying sugary cereals for the poor little animals.

此外,这个结果并不受广告营销的影响,也不因为有父母不负责任,给这个可怜的小动物买高糖的谷物

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And where they feed them, you know and like sometimes the parent might get home late from work.

在那儿，他们会给孩子食物。有时孩子的父母会很晚才下班回家。

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And now let's suppose that your parents are going away for the weekend and they leave you with the following instructions: If it's raining tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you are to close the windows, open the door and let the cat in, phone the grocer and have him send over the following list of groceries. All right.

现在假设你们的父母这周末,离开了，给你们留下了,以下的一些指示：,如果明天早上下雨了，醒来的时候，要把窗户关好，打开门,让猫进来，打电话给杂货店并且让他,送来以下的生活用品，好的。

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