She saw him as a sort of surrogate father.

在她心目中，他仿佛是能替代父亲角色的人。

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The elder Hammerstein became a surrogate father to Sondheim, as the young man attempted to stay away from home as much as possible.

他尽一切可能的远离自己的家，久而久之，老汉默斯坦在他心中替代了父亲的角色。

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As for the suspects, Sean is a former Vietnam medical technician who ACTS as surrogate father to his so-called "daughter", Jimmy, an androgynous druggie punk.

至于嫌疑人，Sean是一名前越南医疗技术人员，扮演着代父的角色，而他所谓的“女儿”Jimmy，是一名雌雄同体的吸毒小阿飞。

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the third was born to a surrogate mother. Michael Jackson's father,Joe, said the children should stay at the family's Los Angeles compound.

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Bored at home, Marty finds a surrogate father in the town's nutty inventor, Dr. Emmett Brown.

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One of them became a surrogate parent after his own father abandoned the family.

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