step parent

基本解釋

"step-parent" is a label we attach to men and women who marry into families where children already exist, for the simple reason that we need to call them something.
我總是覺(jué)得“繼父”或“繼母”是我們給那些與已有孩子的人結(jié)婚的男男女女貼上的一個(gè)標(biāo)簽，這只是出于一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的原因：我們需要有個(gè)詞來(lái)稱(chēng)呼他們。
I've often felt that "step-parent" is a label we attach to men and women who marry into families where children already exist for the simple reason that we need to call them something.
我總是覺(jué)得“繼父”或“繼母”是我們給那些與已有孩子的人結(jié)婚的男男女女貼上的一個(gè)標(biāo)簽，這只是出于一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的原因：我們需要有個(gè)詞來(lái)稱(chēng)呼他們。
I've often felt that "step-parent" is a label we attach to men and women who marry into families where children already exist, for the simple reason that we need to call them something.
我總覺(jué)得“繼父繼母”這個(gè)詞是對(duì)那些與已經(jīng)有了孩子然后又家庭聯(lián)姻的男女們所貼的標(biāo)簽，這么叫原因很簡(jiǎn)單：我們總得管他們叫個(gè)什么。

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