He became the mainstay of the family financially, even collecting his father's wages before Melchior could get his hands on them.

他成了家庭经济的主要支柱，甚至他父亲的工资也由他去领取而不让他父亲沾手。

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By comparative analysis can be found: Spring and Autumn of the Lu clan to Confucian thinking is a mainstay "complicated family" books, Huai Nan Zi is one of the main ideas in Taoism books.

由比较分析可以认定：《吕氏春秋》是一部以儒家思想为主体的“杂家”著作，《淮南子》则是一部以道家思想为主体的著作。

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He has become the mainstay of the family.

他已经成为了家庭的支柱。

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The crop was a mainstay of small, poor family farms.

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As a result we are now in a situation with eight or nine thousand apartments in planning consents, lots of empty apartments but virtually no family housing, which of course has always been the mainstay of demand.

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