Even while we take Mother Water for granted, humans understand in our bones that she is the boss.

尽管我们可以想当然认为人类应该享用水，但是内心深处我们还是很清楚水决定着我们的生存。

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Lack of access to safe water, poor housing, and unsanitary conditions all have a strong bearing on the health of the mother and child.

缺乏安全用水、住房条件差以及不卫生条件都对母亲和儿童的健康有很大的影响。

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His mother laughed, put some Elder-flowers in the tea-pot, and poured boiling water upon them.

他的母亲笑了，把一些接骨木花放进茶壶里，把开水倒在它们上面。

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A boy can be in hot water with his mother, if he comes into the house with dirty,wet shoes.

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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So,they used rainwater. Sarah helped her mother and sister carry water to fill big wooden containers.

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The family appeared on welfare officials' radar in 2010 when their then-two-year-old son, Pavel, was hospitalized with burns after he sat in a bucket of water his mother had boiled on the wood stove to wash clothes, according to Mr. Babichev.

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Stopping here, he asked my mother for a glass of water and gulped it down.

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The infant survived only because she had been given the last of the water by her mother.

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