His father started him off farming.

他父亲指点他做农活儿。

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It was started by his father.

它是由他父亲创办的。

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At nine, his father, a naturalist who had started a reptile park on the Queensland coast, taught him to stalk crocs at night and lug them out of the water.

九岁时，他的父亲，一位在昆士兰海岸开设爬行动物公园的博物学家，教他在夜间跟踪鳄鱼并把它们拖出水面。

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It all started after his father decided that there was no longer enough room in east Texas for his family.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

To become the biggest publishing monolith in the world, it takes maybe a hundred years, so his father in Australia started buying up newspapers.

要成为出版业内最大的垄断商,也许要花一百年,他的父亲在澳大利亚,就开始收购各类报纸

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Early on,Jean-Michel Cousteau says he started to learn from his father.

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Arkin, now 60, was serving in the Israeli Defense Forces when his father started a small pharmaceutical distribution company.

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His father started a newspaper called O Globo in Rio in 1926, when Roberto was 21, and died three weeks later.

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The business his father started builds floats for nearly all the parading Krewes in the area, in addition to renting tractors, repurposing old floats and holding events.

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