1. According to my mother, my natural parents were Samoan and only teenagers when I was born, so they gave me up for adoption.
    母亲告诉我，我的生身父母是萨摩亚人，我出生时他们才十几岁，所以他们把我送给别人抚养。

2. AIDS spreads in three basic ways: first, through sexual intercourse(性交); second, through contact with diseased blood; and third from an HIV mother to her baby.
    艾滋病的传播有三种基本方式：第一，通过性交；第二，通过接触艾滋病患者的血液；第三，经由携带艾滋病毒的母亲传给婴儿。

3. "Is she your mother's sister or your father's?" asked the wife.
    “她是你妈妈的姐妹还是你爸爸的姐妹？”妻子问。

4. "Give it up, mother — ," he threatened. "Give it up."
    "交出来，他妈的--，"他威胁道，"出来。"

5. "It's not an ideal thing to send your kids to such a place," said one mother, asking not to be identified for fear of criticism from other parents.
    将孩子放在这种地方并不理想，"有一位母亲说。她因担心招来其他家长的指责，要求不要泄露她的身份。

6. "Teneecia," I said. "Your boyfriend knows how much you love him. But he wants you to stay where you are, alive, and be a mother to his baby.
    特尼莎，" 我说，"你的男朋友知道你多么爱他，但他希望你好好地活在世上，做他孩子的母亲。

7. Assume for a moment that your 90-year-old mother has recently suffered a stroke.
    假设一下你那90岁的母亲最近中了风。

8. "I always prided myself on being different," she told my mother. "Now I am different.
    我一向为自己与众不同而感到自豪，" 她对妈妈说，"现在我又与众不同了。

9. And what makes my mother sad right now, I think, is not simply that her mother will die in a day or two, but that, once her mother dies, there will never again be someone to love her in quite such a complete, unrestrained way.
    我想，现在最让妈妈难过的，不仅是她母亲很快就会离世，而且还有一旦她母亲去世，就再也没有一个人能这样全心全意、毫无保留地爱她了。

10. "Mom" is not right, because the woman or women who supplied the egg and gave birth to the infant would more appropriately be called Mother.
    称呼"妈妈"不正确，因为提供卵子并生下婴孩的女子才更有资格被称为母亲。