I told my mother I wanted to leave school but she didn't approve.

我告诉母亲我不想继续上学，但是母亲不同意。

《牛津词典》

"How did he meet your mother?" —"I don't know."

“他是怎么遇到你母亲的？” —“我不知道。”

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Not being a mother, I found the chitchat exceedingly dull.

还没做母亲的我，觉得闲谈异常无味。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Their mother is Buddhist. "It affected me." "When I decided to join the military, I was like, 'I'm not going to kill anybody, I do not want to kill anybody.

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I wanted to go back and leer at my strange Dickensian mother in the hash joint. I tingled all over from head to foot.

这时的我已经有些神志不清，真想回去看看,小饭馆里奇怪的幽灵一般的母亲。

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Notice, I didn't put the wife and the mother in there.

注意了，我没有把妻子和母亲列在金字塔里。

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As a mother I want him to know that I'm there if he needs to talk.

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She was the only Jewish mother I knew who took no interest in her daughter's love life.

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From my Irish mother I got my love of learning, romantic idealism, introspective nature, and perhaps most importantly, her love of laughter.

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