他一直想要一个有妻子和孩子的真正的家庭。

He had always wanted a real home with a wife and children.

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我要把你变成一个真正的动物，我的孩子！

I'm going to make an ANIMAL of you, my boy!

youdao

对许多人来说，丈夫和妻子似乎不足以构成一个真正意义上的家庭——他们需要孩子来丰富他们的小圈子，验证这个小圈子的家庭性质，并从子孙后代那里获得某种弥补的影响。

To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family—they need children to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence of offspring.

youdao

If you follow these instructions " you will be a man my son." So that's the mode of thought he may have been in when he talked.

如果你遵循这些教诲,你将成为一个真正的人，我的孩子,所以，那也许才是他发言时所处的思维模式吧。

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