我的朋友的母亲

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我的一位朋友的母亲曾经这样告诉他的儿子,如果他能够找到像母亲一些可以包容他的缺点的女人,他就应该马上和她结婚。
A friend of mine said his mother once told him if he could find a woman who can tolerate his faults the way that she ( his mother ) can , he should marry her immediately .
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在那逝去的往昔日子里,我所熟悉的小镇杰克逊的夫人太太,也就是我左邻右舍的小朋友的母亲们,大都在热心社交时最为忙碌。
In that vanished time in small-town jackson , most of the ladies I was familiar with , the mothers of my friends in the neighborhood were busiest when they were sociable .