A stepmother is expected to respond with the patience and forbearance of any other mother, yet she has no reservoir of affection on which to draw.

大家都觉得继母应该用和其他妈妈们一样的忍耐和克制来应对这一切。但她却没有她们的那些感情积累来支持她们度过那煎熬的时刻。

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Her mother tried several other markets but came up empty-handed. She said she tried to reassure her mother that the salt would do no good anyway.

她妈妈试了其他几家超市但是都空手而归。

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No matter how much we're succeeding in pretty much every other walk of life, women are failing miserably at beating back that pesky thing called Mother Nature.

无论我们在生活的各个方面有多成功，女人在反击那个叫“母性”的烦人东西时总是难过不已。

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As a single mother with two other young children, the biological mother felt she had no choice but to give her daughter up for adoption, said a legal brief filed by her lawyers.

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They might even object to their mother providing a treat for her children while other less fortunate children have no shoes.

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The pair revealed, among many other things, that we likely would have met the mother in May 2013 no matter what: The original plan was for the show to end after just eight seasons (meaning it would have been over...now), with the mother briefly introduced in the series finale.

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