Poor Anthony must never have taken into account these sound words from Kurt Vonnegut in his novel "Mother Night" : "we are who we pretend to be."

可怜的安东尼一定是从未思考过那些来自库尔特·冯内古特(Kurt Vonnegut)在其小说《母亲之夜》(Mother Night)中的珠玑之言：“我们就是我们假装成为的那种人。”

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That night, Mother asked Jo to forgive her sister, but Jo refused.

那晚，母亲请乔原谅她的妹妹，但乔拒绝了。

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Last night, my mother had to stay up late because of too much work.

昨天晚上，我妈妈因为工作太多而不得不熬夜。

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"I'm Mother Moonshower on the night of the last full moon I gave my rain babies into your care.

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Day and night I begged my mother and father to take the bag away shaking with terror because no one saw them but me.

我无时无刻不乞求我的父母,指着那些袋子，让他们带走,我怕的发抖,由于除了我再也没人能看到。

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Stay home. Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?"

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In the world of suspicion, nobody who calls his mother at night could be considered a negative individual.

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Otherwise you have to go back to the '80s, when "Billy Bishop Goes to War" (1980) and "'night, Mother" (1984) transferred to commercial off-Broadway theaters on the heels of their Broadway runs.

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