Without a word, my mother snuck into the church.My father took my arm.

妈妈一句话也没说就进了教堂，我挽住爸爸。

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Without a word, my mother snuck into the church. My father took my arm.

妈妈一句话也没说就进了教堂，我挽住爸爸。

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My daughter corrects me whenever I use this word; it’s a psychiatric clinic, Mother, she says.

不管我在什么时候用这个词儿，我的女儿总是纠正我说：“那是‘精神病院’，妈妈”。

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The butcher had been a good man, friendly to her mother, always offering a kind word and picking out the best cuts for her, but his wife had been mean and silent as she took the money, and sometimes she had kept it a little longer in her hand, staring at it, as if she thought it might be some kind of foreign currency.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer