My mother struggled to raise my younger brother and me on her own; in one way or another we always gotby without our father. We had what we needed.
我母亲独自一人辛辛苦苦把我和弟弟拉扯大,我们在没有父亲的情况下长大,但是我们一样都不缺。
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For many centuries, even millennia, the world gotby without translation: the people of different nations simply learned enough of the next door language to communicate adequately.