She had a stern father who never praised her.

她父亲很严厉，他从来没有表扬过她。

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We are not to think of a loving Son as wringing salvation from a just but stern Father.

我们并非想，一个充满爱的儿子坐立不安救赎从社会公正的，但严厉的父亲。

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IF the euro zone were an old-fashioned family, Germany would be the stern father telling his wayward children to go to bed early and not to spend all their pocket money at once.

如果欧元区是个老式家庭，德国将是那个严厉的父亲，告诉他任性的孩子们早点上床睡觉、不要一下子花光他们的零花钱。

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He looked smashing, tall and dignified with a shock of white hair, and his portrayal of the stern father was unusually tender and melancholy.

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The play, written by the husband and wife team Ruth and Augustus Goetz, tells of a plain young woman whose stern father suspects her latest suitor of wooing her for her inheritance.

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He had an austere childhood in a remote Jura village, growing up with a stern father (not to be disappointed) and a depressive mother (not to be troubled by his own fears).

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