He said that his wife had travelled up to the city to look after her father, who was very sick, but that she would be back soon, maybe in a week's time.

他说他的太太回市里照看她父亲去了，他病得很重，但她很快就会回来的，也许一个星期以后就回来了。

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He told me that he couldn't attend the meeting the next day because he would have to look after his sick mother.

他告诉我他第二天不能来开会，他要照顾生病的母亲。

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Child as he was, he had to look after his sick mother.

尽管他是个孩子，他不得不照看他生病的妈妈。

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Tiomkin thinks the end of the Great Recession was tantamount to a very sick man getting a blood transfusion—he might momentarily look better, but the underlying sickness still remains.

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