His public persona is quite different from the family man described in the book.

他的公开形象与书中描写的恋家男人相去甚远。

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Her mother once wrote and illustrated children's book, so the family always have plenty to read.

她的母亲曾经写过儿童读物，并且给其配了插图，所以这家人总是有许多书可读。

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The book is full of amusing sidelights on his family background.

这本书中有许多关于他家庭背景的趣闻。

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He thought that the book might help him move on from always thinking about his family's past.

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I want to suggest to you that the fact that it's the religious book for him, for his culture, for his family, is not of course incidental to the fact that it's what reminds him of home.

我想提出一个事实,对于他自己，对于他的文化，对于他的家庭，这是一本有着宗教意味的书,所以这让他想起了家就绝非偶然了。

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those family letters have been published in a book called The Children of Pride, and a brilliant book has been written about Colcott Jones and his extended family by Erskine Clarke called Dwelling Place.

这些家书后来被公布于世,收录在一本名叫《骄傲的孩子》的书中,另外有一本书是关于,考克特.琼斯和他的远亲家的故事,厄斯金克拉克

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As a boy, Lewis said he remembered reading "Helter Skelter, " the best-selling book about the Manson family rampage.

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John Davis, of the Harvard Business School, is writing a book on the few family firms that do not succumb to the old rule of shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.

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The first book featured family standards like Zippy Olive Beef Spread, made by combining whatever wine is on hand, instant minced onions, cream cheese, mayonnaise, chopped cocktail olives and beef cut up with kitchen shears.

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