Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

对儿子，妈妈总会无意识的给予他多的从容自由与鼓励；而对女儿，她们怎样对自己就会怎样对女儿。

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The three sons also contribute to the family business.

3个儿子也为家族企业做贡献。

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When his mother learned of his failing grades she required her sons to read two library books every week.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

So this sort of structural repetition creates a crescendo that leads then to the finaland most devastating plague which is the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn sons.

所以这种结构上的反复，创造了一种渐渐加强的效果,最终到了最后一个，也是最具毁灭性的瘟疫,对埃及人长子的屠杀。

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Immortality. One way is through your family and its sons who carry forward the family name, so to speak.

永垂不朽,一条路就是通过你的家庭,让儿子们来继承家族的姓氏,也就是说

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Performing artists cultivate epic traditions from generation to generation, learning, performing and transmitting techniques within kinship circles, from fathers to sons.

UNESCO: Culture

That, in turn, would explain why women in rich countries, who are less likely to suffer from hunger and disease, are more likely to give birth to sons.

ECONOMIST: The sex of a child may depend on how stressed its mother is

It has been traditional in England for children to take their father's name and so Professor Sykes and colleague Catherine Irven looked at the Y chromosome, which fathers pass to sons but not daughters.

BBC: Surnames found in DNA