补英语的长腿叔叔

书名：Daddy-Long-Legs《长腿叔叔》作者：Jean Websten出版社：中国社会出版社句子一：The day was ended -quite successfully,so far as she knew .句子二：she dropped down on the window seat and leaned throbbing temples against the cool glass.句子三：Today at the regular meeting,the question of your future was brought up.句子四：I have just been reading this letter over and it sounds pretty uncheeerful.句子五：I hope that I don't hurt your feelings when I criticize the home of my youth.

书中男主的角色是收养者，而在一般情况下被收养者对其养父称daddy是很正常的，在西方亲属体系中uncle一般疏离得不带养育义务的。那为什么不用father呢？这就涉及到了宗教问题，美国简称神父God father为father，特别是很多的福利院都有宗教背景的。