He gave me a piece of paternal advice.

他给了我慈父般的忠告。

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His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background.

他的祖父母是管家和女管家，甚至还做过地位更低的仆人，后来狄更斯就隐瞒了祖父母的背景。

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A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think.

——父辈的奉献也许并非像我们想的那样必不可少。

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There's a fear here that the ambition of this bid for paternal light is presumptuous, perhaps it's even satanic Satan of course in the next book, Book Four will have his invocation to light.

人们会担心弥尔顿认为光与上帝差不多的想法,过于胆大妄为，或许是极恶的,当然，第四卷里的撒旦,也会祈求光明。

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This is 1969, and the purpose that's alleged for appealing to the author as a paternal source, as an authority, is, according to both Barthes and Foucault, to police the way texts are read.

这是1969年，断言把作者作为一种,父性的资源，一种权威的目的，根据巴特和福柯的说法，是为了监督文本被阅读的方式。

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Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.

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This mattered, for there was also a strong connection between paternal investment and a child's nutritional state.

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The institution of private property, meanwhile, made paternal certainty a vital concern, and monogamy, particularly for women, was strictly enforced.

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