She was a real lady my mother, she had come to teach in the island school and fell in love with my father.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Day and night I begged my mother and father to take the bag away shaking with terror because no one saw them but me.

我无时无刻不乞求我的父母,指着那些袋子，让他们带走,我怕的发抖,由于除了我再也没人能看到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he denied that. He said my mother was nothing like Kane's father.

他否认了，他说,我母亲不像凯恩的父亲。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

I remember my father drove a bus and my mother was a waitress, and so we often didn't get to have Thanksgiving together.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

my mother said to me now, "but all we will miss you,your father and I."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10