Her mother started her off acting in children's theatre.

她母亲让她开始在儿童剧院表演。

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My mother started me off on the piano when I was three.

三岁时我母亲就让我开始练钢琴了。

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Her family is ungrateful and spiteful. When Maggie buys them a house, her mother flies off the handle, worried that her welfare scam will be ruined.

她有一个忘恩负义、怀恨于心的家庭。麦琪给家里买了一套房子，但她妈妈却因为担心自己的诈骗救济会败露而大发雷霆。

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Mother set off with some of the children to look for Bill, but they could find no sign of him.

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He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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David Brown, head of cardiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center, took his mother off Vytorin.

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"I took my mother off it, " says David Brown, head of cardiology at SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center.

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The few times that Tamerlan was there, he would wave his mother off when she tried to introduce him.

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