It was evident that Miss Welland was in the act of announcing her engagement, while her mother affected the air of parental reluctance considered suitable to the occasion.

很明显，韦兰小姐正在宣布她的订婚消息，而她母亲则装出一副与这种场合相称的家长们不情愿的模样。

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Last year, a woman, whose father is Indonesian and her mother American, was crowned Miss Indonesia despite her poor command of Indonesian.

去年，一位女士摘得了印尼小姐的桂冠，她的父亲是印尼人，她的母亲是美国人，她的印尼文说得非常不好。

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But her mother and I were going to miss her badly.

但我和她母亲会非常想念她。

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In eighteen eighty-eight, Helen,her mother and Miss Sullivan went to Boston,Massachusetts.

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The defence say Miss Pearson and her mother suffered from a syndrome called folie a deux which meant the older woman was the dominant figure in the relationship and Miss Pearson therefore had a reduced capacity to appreciate the risk to her mother's health or the conditions they lived in.

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Miss Pearson told the court her mother had not left their house since her husband died in 2001 and mainly stayed in bed.

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Police did not take a statement from Miss Cowles until three years later, when her mother wrote to the chief constable after watching a police appeal for a red car.

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