11-03-12 Being a mother is apparently not like it was in the good old days. 现在做妈妈显然不像在过去的美好时代那么轻松了。 Todays parents yearn for（渴望） the golden age that their own mothers enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers found. Mothers have...

11-03-09 My friend got married. His mother carried two bags of cotton from the countryside by bus and train to his city. After arriving at the city, there was still a long way to his house without any bus passing by the house. His mother walked to his home b...

11-01-29 耶鲁大学法学院华裔教授蔡美儿的新书《虎妈战歌》在被美国媒体摘录后，立即成为中西方媒体热议的话题，虎妈蔡美儿提出的中国式严苛教子方法也引发了巨大争议。 Amy Chua watches her daughter Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld practice playing piano in her home in New Haven,...

11-01-21 Everything happens for the best, my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment. Mother was right, as...

11-01-12 Mother had decided to trim（修剪，整理） her household（家庭的，日常的） budget wherever possible, so instead of having a dress drycleaned she washed it by hand. Proud of her savings, she boasted to my father, Just think, Fred, we are five dollars r...

11-01-05 My father, who was 14 years old than my mother, had been working on his will. At a family dinner he told us that he had provided well for Mother, but the family home would go to us five children if she remarried. I don't want another S.O.B. toasting...

10-12-14 Mother asked her little daughter who was reading a book. What are you reading, dear? I don't know. the little girl answered. You don't know? But you were reading aloud, so you must know. I was reading aloud, mummy, but i wasn't listening, explained...

10-11-08 Two brothers were looking at some beautiful paintings. Look, said the elder brother. How nice these paintings are! Yes, said the younger, but in all these paintings there is only the mother and the children. Where is the father? The elder brother th...

10-10-29 At a dinner party in the home of friends, our host mentioned his highschool alma mater（母校，校歌） . One of the guests asked him if he had been a student there at the same time as a particular vice principal. I sure was! answered the host. He's th...

10-09-14 S.O.B. My father, who was 14 years old than my mother, had been working on his will. At a family dinner he told us that he had provided well for mother, but the family home would go to us five children if she remarried. I don't want another S.O.B. t...